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Teaching English to the Younger Learner

Part-time, 4 hours per week, 32 hours.This is a very practical course that mainly covers the age groups 8-10 and 11-13, although 5-8 and 13-16 are taken into consideration. The course covers the following areas:

The Young Learner
  • differences and similarities at different age groups.

  • learner attitudes to learning English.
    the Spanish and English school systems.

  • ways of developing autonomy.

Classroom Management
  • managing the group and the individual.

  • organising the room and the space.

  • managing time.

  • problems and options.

Skills Development
  • the four major skills and ways of working with these.

  • teacher talk and storytelling.

Planning
  • course design and timetabling.

  • lesson planning.

  • a task based approach.

  • project work.

 

The Teacher
  • exploring teacher attitudes to the younger learner of English.

  • roles and responsibilities

Materials and Aids
  • an evaluation of suitable course books and supplementary materials.

  • using and creating audiovisual aids.

Evaluation
  • day to day evaluation and feedback.

  • progress tests; design and feedback.

Language Development
  • fun ways of dealing with vocabulary, structures and functions

Warmers and Coolers
  • a host of short games

 

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At regular intervals during the course the course participants are involved in a mini-project to design a topic/activity based syllabus

Director of Teacher Education
British Language Centre
C/Bravo Murillo 377, 2º
28020 Madrid
Spain

Tel: (00 34) 91 733 0739
Fax: (00 34) 91 314 5009
ted@british-blc.com

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