Aimed at student teachers, educators and practitioners, Teaching
English Language to Young Learners outlines and explains the crucial
issues, themes and scenarios relating to this area of teaching. Each
chapter by a leading international scholar offers a thorough
introduction to a central theme of English as a foreign language (EFL)
with preteens, with clear presentation of the theoretical background and
detailed references for further reading, providing access to the most
recent scholarship. Exploring the essential issues critically and
in-depth, including the disadvantages as well as advantages of Teaching
English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) with young learners, topics
include:
- task-based learning in the primary school;
- storytelling;
- drama;
- technology;
- vocabulary development;
- intercultural understanding;
- Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) scenarios;
- assessment.
Innovative and rapidly emerging topics are covered, such as immersion
teaching, picturebooks in the EFL classroom and English with pre-primary
children.