Teaching Listening for Young Learners

By English For Young - As we know that listening is receptive skills. But we should make the listening to be fun in teaching learning especially for young learners. We know that their characteristics is very unique, so let’s make listening to be interesting lesson.

Bellow are several ways how to teaching listening for young learners :

• Listening should not passively activity, we can do actively teaching listening.

• We should give different task according their age, learning style, their listening capacity, and their phonological awareness.

• The language teachers should train the students to listen to the English sounds carefully.

• Give simple instruction to get them ready to develop other language skills.

• Give different task in listening classroom, such as :

HOW TO TEACH WRITING FOR YOUNG LEARNERS

By English For Young - Writing is one of the four main skills in language learning. Teaching writing for young learners certainly different  with older learners. As young learners they begin with “emergent writing”. This starts with pretend writing and then gradually they begin to write words and short texts but without knowing exactly how to spell. Emergent writing is often combined with drawings.
As a good teacher we should remember when we teach young learners that along with learning how to write in English, they refining their oral language skills, depending upon the age, begining to develop written language skills in their native language. If students do not have writing skills in their native language, they most likely won’t have them in their second language. So the teacher should never underestimate the value of native language literacy.