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In this course you will examine how young learners develop cognitively, how they learn languages, and how your understanding of these two areas can help guide you in your role as a language teacher. In the 12 lessons, you will be introduced to ways of teaching the four language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing), as well as techniques for using stories, songs and rhymes, games and role-play in your classroom. You will also consider the role of assessment and evaluation in teaching English to young learners. This course will combine theory with practice in providing examples that will help illustrate how you can teach language to young learners in your classroom. Also, students who successfully complete this course will receive a TESOL Certificate of Completion.
About The Instructor
Annie Hughes is a TEYL specialist and has been teaching and working with young learners, trainers and teachers for over 30 years now - and still loves it! She is the Assistant Director of CELT, Department of Educational Studies, University of York and Director of the MA in TEYL, a distance MA which focuses on English learners from 6 to 16 years of age. She is Director of all TEYL trainer and teacher development and training programmes at York. She is also a specialist TEYL consultant and works on EYL projects worldwide.
She was a member of the University of Cambridge Local Examination Syndicate Committee that created the CELTYL and the British Council Working Party on Teaching English to Young Learners for many years. Additionally, she was also IATEFL YL Sig coordinator for four years.
Annie co-wrote Carousel 1 & 2 (Longman), Treasure Trail 3 & 4 (Penguin), 100 Plus Ideas for Children (Heinemann) and wrote Carnival of Songs (Cornelson) and JET: Songs and Rhymes (Mary Glasgow). She co-created and edited The Penguin Young Readers Series and was the TEYL consultant for the Usborne ELT series. She has been involved with and directed the annual British Council Summer School for teachers of English to young learners, 1989 -2000, and directed the British Council Specialist Seminars on Managing Change in TEYL. She was also a TEYL consultant for the BBC World Service, particularly working on the 'Activate It!' series. She is particularly interested the teaching of language through song and story and believes this may be because she comes from Liverpool!
Joan Quick will be your facilitator in the Discussion Areas.
Syllabus
A new session of each course starts monthly. If enrolling in a series of two or more courses, please be sure to space the start date for each course at least two months apart.
All courses run for six weeks, with a two-week grace period at the end. Two lessons are released each week for the six-week duration of the course. You do not have to be present when lessons are released. You will have access to all lessons until the course ends. However, the interactive discussion area that accompanies each lesson will automatically close two weeks after the lesson is released. As such, we strongly recommend that you complete each lesson within two weeks of its release.
The final exam will be released on the same day as the last lesson. Once the final exam has been released, you will have two weeks to complete all of your course work, including the final exam.
Requirements
• Internet access
• Email
• One of the following browsers:
o Mozilla Firefox
o Microsoft Internet Explorer (9.0 or above)
o Google Chrome
o Safari
• Adobe PDF plug-in (a free download obtained at Adobe.com .)