English Teaching Forum 2006, Volume 44, Number 2
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This special issue is about teaching English to young learners. It covers a variety of topics and features a special section with songs for children and photos to use with the songs.
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In this article, the author shares vocabulary development activities for young learners. These activities channel students' energy and make learning more effective and fun. The author stresses the importance of giving young learners a good language-learning experience, and the challenges of teaching
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Andrea Schindler
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The author states that communicative activities, known to help language learning, can be difficult to use with middle school students. The author offers four suggestions for carrying out communicative activities and presents two activities that are designed to motivate students to use English to exp
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Carolina Rivera
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06-44-2-h.pdf
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This article introduces an approach taken in Tunisia to introduce English as a foreign language to children in primary school classrooms. The author states that in Tunisia, children in primary schools are first taught Arabic and then French. The government does not want to overburden the students wi
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Jawida Ben Afia
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06-44-2-e.pdf
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This article discusses the benefits of using stories in language teaching and ideas of how to use stories in the classroom. The authors believe that stories can help solve the problems caused by limited resources and are good ways to teach culture. They describe types of stories and how they can be
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Myrtis Mixon; Philomena Temu
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06-44-2-d.pdf
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These are twenty pictures and twenty matching vocabulary cards that can be used in classroom teaching.
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06-44-2-k.pdf
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There are four children’s songs that can be used for classroom activities, together with the pictures provided at the end of this issue.
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06-44-2-j.pdf
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The author discusses the benefits of applying cognitive linguistics, L1 acquisition, and neo-Vygotskian (Vygotsky) approaches to the teaching of a second language to young learners, using the example of teaching the preposition “on.” The author briefly reviews how prepositions are taught to adult le
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Anna Piquer-Píriz
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This article offers ten suggestions for teaching young learners between the age of 7 and 12 based on language-teaching principles. They include supplementing activities with visuals, realia and movement; involving students in making visuals and realia; moving from activity to activity; teaching in t
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Joan Kang Shin
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06-44-2-b.pdf
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This is a word game. It presents three phrases, and challenges the student to make as many words as possible using the letters in the given phrases.
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Marsha Ford
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06-44-2-l.pdf
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The article argues for the benefits of drama activities for language learning. The author discusses nine benefits of using drama activities to teach young learners. The author then gives advice on how to use drama in the classroom, including how to choose an appropriate activity, how to start, and h
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Galina Zalta
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06-44-2-f.pdf
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In this article, the author discusses the benefits of using songs and poems to teach young learners. The author explains how songs and poems can be used in English class and what their benefits are. The author explains how teachers can use actions or puppets to accompany the selected songs or poems,
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Caroline Linse
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06-44-2-i.pdf
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