Teaching Children English is a training course for teachers of English as a foreign language to young learners, aged 7 years and over. The book is intended for native and non-native teachers, and their trainers. It can be followed as a complete course, providing the core input for a professional qualification, or used selectively to integrate with an existing training scheme.
Teaching Children English highlights a whole language and cross-curricular approach to the teaching of English to children.
* raises the awareness of teachers with respect to their own classroom practice.
* stimulates discussion on key issues relating to the teaching of children.
* illustrates methodology and classroom practice issues through themes and topics which can be used with children.
* provides extensive examples of the use of literature, songs, rhymes, games and practical tasks as centres of development for children's language.
The material consists of three sections:
The training course which is followed by the teacher.
Trainer's notes which provide guidelines on the use of the course.
A Resource File which provides an extensive range of further activities.
David Vale is a freelance teacher, teacher trainer and ELT author. Anne Feunteun is a teacher trainer.