Teaching English to Young Learners (eBook, PDF)

Critical Issues in Language Teaching with 3-12 Year Olds
Redaktion: Bland, Janice

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472588593
• Artikelnr.: 43668397

Autorenporträt

Janice Bland is Professor of English Education at Nord University, Norway. She is co-editor of the peer-reviewed, open-access journal, Children's Literature in English Language Education.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Carol Read (President of International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language) Introduction
Janice Bland (Vechta University
Germany) 1. The Advantages and Disadvantages of English as a Foreign Language with Young Learners
Janet Enever (Umea University
Sweden) 2. Primary English and Critical Issues: A Worldwide Perspective
Shelagh Rixon (Freelance Researcher
UK) 3. English in Pre-primary: The Challenges of Getting it Right
Sandie Mourão (Freelance Researcher
Portugal) 4. Immersion Teaching in English with Young Learners
Kristin Kersten (Hildesheim University
Germany) and Andreas Rohde (University of Cologne
Germany) 5. CLIL Scenarios with Young Learners
Kay Bentley (Freelance Researcher
UK) 6. Task-based Learning with Children
Annamaria Pinter (University of Warwick
UK) 7. Language Development in Young Learners: The Role of Formulaic Language
Saskia Kersten (University of Hertfordshire
UK) 8. Grammar Templates for the Future with Poetry for Children
Janice Bland (Vechta University
Germany) 9. Developing Intercultural Understanding in Primary Schools
Patricia Driscoll (Canterbury Christ Church University
UK) and Helen Simpson (World Education Development Group
UK) 10. Oral Storytelling in the Primary English Classroom
Janice Bland (Vechta University
Germany) 11. The Potential of Picturebooks with Young Learners
Sandie Mourão (Freelance Researcher
Portugal) 12. Drama with Young Learners
Janice Bland (Vechta University
Germany) 13. Teaching Young Learners with Technology
Euline Cutrim Schmid (Schwäbisch Gmünd University of Education
Germany) and Shona Whyte (University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis
France) 14. Assessment and Portfolios
Carmen Becker (University of Hannover
Germany) 15. Developing Principled Materials for Young Learners
Brian Tomlinson (Freelance Researcher
UK) Index