Teaching Across Age Level (Young)

TEACHING ACROSS AGE LEVEL (YOUNG)

Teaching English to Children Children are active learners and thinkers.

(Piaget, 1970) Children's natural ability to acquire new

languages is strong before adolescence. Five categories may help give some

practical approaches to teach children.

Intellectual Development

Don’t explain grammar using terms like “present progressive” or “relative clause.”

Some grammatical concepts, especially at the upper levels of childhood, can be called to learner’s attention by showing them certain patterns.

Attention Span Children are focused on the immediate

here and now, activities should be designed to capture their immediate interest.

A lesson needs a variety of activities to keep interest and attention alive.

A sense of humor will go along way to keep children laughing and learning.

Sensory input Pepper your lessons with physical

activity, such as having students act out things (role-play, games, etc).

Projects and other hands-on activities go a long way toward helping children to internalize language.

Sensory aids here and there help children to internalize concepts.

Affective Factors Help your students to laugh with each

other at various mistakes that they all make.

Be patient and supportive to build self-esteem, yet the same time be firm in your expectations of students.

Elicit as much or participation as possible from students, especially the quieter ones, to give them plenty of opportunities for trying things out.

Authentic, Meaningful Language

Children are good at sensing language that is not authentic.

Language needs to be firmly context embedded. Context-reduced language in abstract, unconnected sentences will be much less readily tolerated by children’s minds.

A whole languange approach is essensial.

Teaching English to Teenagers

“Teaching teenagers isn’t easy because, well, being a teenager isn’t easy” - Gary Underson

Teaching English to Teenagers

“Adolescents are often seen as problem students, but with their great ability for abstract thought and enthusiastic commitment to what they are doing once they are engaged, ‘teens may well be the most exciting students of all” - Harmer J.

Teenager: a Definition A teenager, or teen, is a young person

whose age falls within the range from thirteen through nineteen (13–19).

Teaching Process

Children

Teenager

Young Adult

Adult

Psychological Condition of Teenager

Teen is age of transition, confusion, self-consciousness, growing, and changing bodies and minds.

It is a condition where someone is not mature, but not children anymore.

Teaching Source & Activities

Tips for Teaching Teen (Worgan M.)

1. The First Day: The first few days are crucial to the way the course will run.  This is the time when the students will make unconscious decisions about what kind of teacher you are.

Tips for Teaching Teen (Worgan M.)

2. Don’t be strict: Research has shown that firm but fair teachers are preferred by this age group. Many times teachers are tempted to treat a group of sixteen year- olds as adults, but the fact is that emotionally they are not.

Tips for Teaching Teen (Worgan M.)

3. Short-Term goals: For the teacher, the school year may fly by, but for the average fifteen-year-old, though, a year can be a very long time.

Tips for Teaching Teen (Worgan M.)

4. Motivation: You need to motivate your students creatively to follow your lesson.

Tips for Teaching Teen (Worgan M.)

5. Humor: A good laugh now and again can motivate teenagers to want to come to class. Make up stories or ask them to help you solve a problem or to introduce a grammar point that they actually know.

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