Teaching English to Young Learners thru Songs

Children naturally love singing or chanting, and do not really care if they are off tone. The use of songs in teaching gives variety to a lesson, provides practice in pronunciation, intonation, structure and vocabulary. Songs also adds enjoyment, increases learners’ motivation and promotes maximum participation. To add to it, songs can be used to create children or group identity.

Teaching English using songs is NOT about the product. No problem even if you are off tone. It is part of the process of language learning, encouraging learners to own simple and mechanical language, involving their moods. Besides having the power dramatize the language, songs also serve as opportunities for the shy students to hide their character. Usually, through songs, students actively involved in the learning process

TEYL through Arts and Crafts

Through arts and crafts, teachers promote the learners’ personal development, help them learn English and to co-operate. It provides chances for learners’ to learn meaning while making, and extend experience and understanding the world and doing it through a foreign language.

Teaching English to Young Learners

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.

Classroom Language

Teachers often use languages that are not suitable for classroom settings. Some ither teachers ware confused of what to say in certain situations and end up saying confusing instructions to the students. What are the examples of Classroom Languages? Should Classroom Language be taught in the pre-teaching classes or teachers' training institutions, or will it grow with the direct classroom experiences?