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Young Learners TEFL Course Curriculum

Phase 1: The Learner
Teaching ESL to children is not about saddling them with an endless list of original language tasks in a classroom environment, but to teach them the language keeping their age, level and aptitude in mind. This requires a lot of dedication and intuitive perception on the part of the teacher.
Language learning and language acquisition
• The Hypothesis
• Distinguish between learning and acquisition
• Assignment

How do children learn English?
• Practical approaches to teaching children
• The levels
• Language Development and context
• Assignment

Phase 2: The Skills
The “four skills” – listening, speaking, reading and writing has been for decades of paramount importance in the teaching and learning of the English language. Listening and reading are said to be receptive skills and speaking and writing are productive. Though on occasions these skills are taught separately but the now the propensity is to put them together or to integrate the skills. The language learners quickly comprehend the differences and the inter dependence of these primary skills.

Teaching Listening
• The importance of listening in the classroom
• Listening activities
• Self - Assignment

Teaching how to speak
• Speaking in the classroom
• Student talk
• Introducing language
• Activities
• Self – Assignment

Teaching Reading
• Approaches to reading
• Building confidence
• Different Material
• Assignment

Teaching Writing
• Pre writing tasks
• Activities
• Some more ideas
• Assignment

Phase 3: Actual Teaching
Actual training occurs only when you are placed in the classroom. The subject that you plan to teach is just a minor part of the teaching scenario. In a classroom and outside it a whole lot of activities go on that exerts influence on the teaching and learning process.

How to handle mixed groups
• Mixed groups
• Helpful strategies
• Group work
• Assignment

Class Management
• The teacher
• The room
• Rules
• Working in groups
• Self-Assignment – not to be submitted

Lesson Planning
• The need to plan
o Different ways of planning
• The framework
• When things go wrong
• Assignment

Phase 4: Tools
Approaches that are Teacher- centered and not learner – centered fail address the children as ‘whole’ persons. This type of teaching only aims at sharpening the children’s intellect and is too rational in approach. It is based on the unhappy notion that real learning occurs when the children are in a solemn mood. It couldn’t be more incorrect!

Materials in the classroom
• Things to be made
• Things to be bought
• Assignment

Stories, games, songs, chants
• How to use stories
• Games – some ideas
• The importance of songs and chants
• Self-Assignments – not to be submitted

Phase 5: That’s right!
In the world of education, correction and evaluation are important features. With every learning experience there comes a moment when one must stop for a minute, assess his knowledge and try to implement it to the best of his ability and demonstrate the acquired skills and knowledge. Unfortunately students are apprehensive of this process of correction and evaluation it is for the teachers to make it a happy and productive experience.

Correction techniques
• Look at error differently
• Ways of error correction
• Assignment

Evaluation techniques
• The meaning
• Purpose
• Formative assessment
• The continuous system
• Assignment