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Teaching English to Young Learners

Practical Teaching Technique

Teaching English to Young Learners

Practical Teaching Technique

M. SAIFUDDIN

ContentsContents

1. Teaching Technique for Listening 1. Teaching Technique for Listening

3. Teaching technique for Reading

3. Teaching technique for Reading

2. Teaching Technique for Speaking 2. Teaching Technique for Speaking

4. Teaching Technique for Writing 4. Teaching Technique for Writing

‘Listen and do activities’

‘Listen for information’

‘Listen and color’

Teaching Technique for ListeningTeaching Technique for ListeningIt is quite clear that listening is the skill that children acquire first, especially if they have not yet learnt to read.

The most obvious ‘listen and do’ activity which we can and should make use from the moment we start the English lessons is giving genuine instruction.

Example:- Sit down, please- Give this pen to Silvy, please- Please, come to the white board

Listen and do activitiesListen and do activities

What you need and what to do?• Prepare some imperative sentences related to

the topic of the lesson• Write them down on a piece of paper• Divide the students into some groups

Instruction:• Ask one of the student of the group to take a

piece of paper randomly• The teacher read aloud the sentences inside the

paper• The students perform the activity based on the

instruction given in a turn

The advantages with this type of activity is that you know at once if the children have understood. You can check classroom vocabulary, movement words, counting, spelling.

They will still be able to do the activity by watching the others.

Listen for informationListen for information

It is really the umbrella heading which covers a very wide range of listening activities. We are taking it to mean listening for detail, specific information.

These can often be used to check what the children know, and also can give them new information

example:Children need to listen carefully what teacher said,

then the are required to match the information to the suitable picture.

“Has anyone see this boy?” He has dark hair and big ears. He is wearing rubber boots and carrying a football. He has a stripped jersey and short trousers. Put a cross by the right correct!

Listen and colorListen and color

• Children love coloring picture and we can easily make this activity into a listening activity.

• The following is the example of ‘listen and color’ with the combination between color and number.

Teaching technique for speakingTeaching technique for speaking

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Pair Work Pair Work

Group WorkGroup Work

Speaking is perhaps the most demanding skill for the teacher to teach. In their own language children are able to express emotions, communicate intentions and reaction, explore the language and make fun of it

Speaking is perhaps the most demanding skill for the teacher to teach. In their own language children are able to express emotions, communicate intentions and reaction, explore the language and make fun of it

Pair WorkPair WorkStudents A and B work in pairs to learn famous

building and direction.

1. A: Is there a museum?

B: Yes, there is

2. A: Where is the museum?

B: It is on Tottenham-

Road

Group WorkGroup WorkPicture is suitable media for children to learn.• The students work in group to describe what

picture is• The group describe the picture accordingly• The rest of the groups decide the order picture

Teaching Technique for ReadingTeaching Technique for Reading

Just as listening is the main

source of language when

children start to learn a

language, print is the second

main source. The printed

word becomes the main

source of expanding and

strengthening the language

Reading aloud

Silent Reading

Reading aloudReading aloud

Reading aloud can be very useful technique:• Reading aloud to the teacher should be done

individually or in small groups. The reader then has the teacher’s full attention.

• The teacher can use it as a means of training and checking rhythm and pronunciation.

That’s bird. It’s orange. That’s a fly. It’s green. That’s a frog. It’s green too. That’s zebra. It’s black and white. I am Teddy and I am light

brown. He’s Teddy and we love him. He’s

great. I am Teddy and I am great

Teaching technique for writingTeaching technique for writing

Writing is not always easyWriting is a good thing

MatchingOrganizingandcopying

DictationFill in the blaks

MatchingMatching

DictationDictation

• Be short• Be made up of sentences which can be said in one

breath• Have a purpose• Be read or said at normal speed

Example:

Maria has a baker’s hat. She’s going to bring it to class tomorrow. We are going to have a bakery shop

Fill in the BlankFill in the Blank

Organizing and copyingOrganizing and copying