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Teaching English to Young Learners Lesson 5 Summary

Here is a summary of what you learned this lesson.

Approaches to Reading

We discussed two approaches to teaching reading: the whole language approach and phonic approach.

Teachers are reminded how reading is introduced in your class will depend on many factors such as the age of the children, the level of their exposure to English, their first language background, and their ability to read in their first language.

Supporting Principles

We discussed some basic principles teachers need to remember and embed in their daily English reading program to ensure students gradually and confidently develop their reading skills in English. Remember to...

Assess students' reading level

Activate prior knowledge

Introduce key vocabulary prior to the reading task

Introduce a focus on a reading strategy e.g. look at the front cover

Encourage students to predict what will happen next in their reading to

encourage further reading

Teaching Writing

We learned about teaching writing to young learners. Remember to start writing early and support students where they are at with scaffolding techniques such as cloze activities. Dialogue journals are another great way to encourage writing between you and your students.

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Assessment and Feedback

EFL learners rely on meaningful assessments and feedback from their teachers to help them learn English.

Making errors is an important part of the language acquisition process

Learners need supportive feedback to help them learn from their error

Supportive feedback needs to be selective, individualized, and

understandable

Support students to correct their errors on their own

Key Terms

Phonics Phonics refers to the teaching of specific sound-symbol correspondences so that children can sound out words.

Feedback Feedback to students is part of the learning process where the teacher provides individualized responses based on students work to support their improvement.