As English is being introduced into primary classrooms round the world, more and more teachers are being asked to teach English to Young Learners. In some situations, the teachers are not really properly prepared pedagogically nor academically. In others, the teachers do not even know what to do, so the learning-teaching interaction is treated like adult classes.
Children learn better than adult so foreign language learning in school should be started at as early an age as possible. Some people do not buy this belief. Adult and children learn differently and use different strategies, and so there is not better or worse. The same thing applies to the myth that adults have a longer concentration span than children. It is true that some adult develop longer time span, but in general it is not really significant. If adult can do a certain activity in a longer time span it is mainly because they have learned more ethics and able to regulate themselves compared to children.
Children have an enormous capacity for finding and making fun. Sometimes, it has to be said, they choose the most convenient moments to indulge it. So, in teaching young learners, we need to put the element of fun as the center of all learning teaching activities.
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