Young Learners and Grammar: How to Do It Right (BusyTeacher)

[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 4 | January 27, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036]

Of all the things we teach, most would agree grammar is one of the most challenging.

The reason is because it is not easy to motivate students, especially young students to learn grammar . Simply sitting kids down and explaining rules is not an option because they possess certain characteristics that make their learning different from that of adults. In an ESL classroom, kids are in a setting in which they are surrounded by language. The second language is made meaningful because of the context and because of the way teachers speak to them.

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Create a Safe, Kind and Engaging School Climate Where All Students Thrive (McGraw-Hill Education Video)

[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 4 | January 27, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] Three leading nonprofits in the field of school climate and kindness team up to provide insight, inspiration, evaluation…

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Teaching listening – Listening as Acquisition (Cambridge Conversations)

[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 4 | January 27, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036]

Our discussion so far has dealt with one perspective on listening, namely, listening as comprehension. Everything we have discussed has been based on the assumption that the role of listening in a language program is to help develop learners’ abilities to understand things they listen to.

This approach to teaching of listening is based on the following assumptions:

  • Listening serves the goal of extracting meaning from messages.
  • To do this, learners have to be taught how to use both bottom-up and top-down processes to understand messages.

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