Young children possess the ability to acquire a foreign language which is divided into three different stages according to the language skills applicable to each one due to their psycho-motor skills, the different learning styles and the multiple intelligences. The three different stages will support the integral development of language learning for each child according to their age.

1. WELCOME TO THE
WONDER
FUL
WORLD OF
CHILDREN’S LANGUAGE
LEARNING

2. THE TEACHING-LEARNING PROCESS OF
ENGLISH TO CHILDREN FROM THE AGE OF
THREE TO TEN
DATE: July 5th – July 9th, 2.004 FACILITATOR: Lcda. Clara Clavijo
TIME: 15H00-18H00
GENERAL OBJECTIVES:- Establish the importance to teach English to Children at
an early age.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: - State the need to teach English to Children as
early as possible.
- Develop appropriate skills according to
the children´s ages.
- Indicate the Teaching-Learning process in a sequential
order according to the scholar stage of the child.
- Analyze the average characteristics of a child which
are relevant for language teaching.

3. GOALS: 90% of the participants will be able to determine that
young Children possess a greater capacity to acquire a new language.
CONTENTS:
Session # 1: General view of the young language learner.
- Pre-test
-Theory of the Multiple intelligences.
-Definition of the Multiple Intelligences.
-What are the eight intelligences?
-Integration of the MI theory in T.E.F.L.
-Introduction of the process: The language mind.
Session # 2: First Stage (Pre-school stage)
-Children from the age of three to four.
-The importance of learning English at this stage.
-Methodology applied at this stage.
-Class management and atmosphere.

4. Session # 3: Second Stage
-Five to seven year old children.
-The communicative approach
-Methodology: Stories in pictures/
story telling/ expanding vocab.,
through reading/language learning
games, jazz chants.
Session # 4: Third Stage
-Eight to ten year old children.
-Developing guesswork strategies.
-Creative thinking riddles.
-Effective interviewing in the communicative
classroom.

5. Session # 5: Classroom management
-Lesson planning
-Strategies: Motivational strategies
The importance of review
Feedback and correction
-Syllabus: Making and using simple teaching aids
-Classroom tests.
MATERIALS: -Handouts -Computer
-In focus -overhead projector
-taperecorder -tranparencies
-grids -props

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