Tag: Teaching English to Young Learners
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Our IATEFL panel: A summary
This post is a summary of the 2015 IATEFL panel discussion about Teaching English to Young Learners (TEYL), in which I was involved, along with Vicky Loras, Juup Stelma, Magdalena De Stefani and María Muniz.
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Meet our IATEFL panel!
As I announced a couple of months ago, I am proud to chair a panel discussion focussing on Young Learners in this year’s IATEFL convention. The panel is titled: Teaching English to Young Learners: Some International perspectives and you can read more about it here. In this post, I want to introduce the brilliant teachers and scholars who…
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Call for Papers: 4th International Conference on TEYL Assessment & Learning
The Faculty of Education of the University of Kragujevac (Serbia) are organising the 4th International Conference on Teaching English to Young Learners (TEYL), which will take place on the 5th and 6th June 2015. The conference will focus on Assessment and Learning, and the organisers are looking forward to submissions that will focus on topics such as: Assessment…
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Teaching English to Young Learners: Some insights from the literature
In view of the increasing interest in Teaching English to Young Learners worldwide, it’s time to look at what the literature on Second Language Acquisition can tell us.
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Our IATEFL 2015 presentation: “Teaching English to Young Learners: Some International Perspectives”
I am very happy to announce that I will be chairing a panel discussion that will focus on Teaching English to Young Learners (TEYL) in the upcoming IATEFL conference. The discussion will take place on Saturday, 11th April 2015 (time and location, TBA). Our panel aims to bring together perspectives of TEYL from a variety of contexts around the world.…
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Primary ELT: Feedback from the community
More and more young children are taught English, but what do teachers think about this?
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Teaching English to Young Learners, revisited
A discussion of the effectiveness of the Greek TEYL project, based on recent publications.
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On the ELT J debate, continued
A while ago, I wrote about this year’s ELT J debate, titled “This house believes that Primary ELT does more harm than good”. Janet Enever, who spoke against the motion, has since written a post outlining some additional ideas that bear on the topic of the debate. I think it is only fair to present a summary of…
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“Primary English Language Teaching does more harm than good”
As education systems around the world are keen to increase the English Language Teaching provision in primary schools, the ELT Journal debate examines possible drawbacks of such policies.