This article lets teachers know the characteristics of young learners and gives them tips and activities to build successful lessons for them.
Who Are Young Learners?
Children from the first year of formal schooling (five or six years old to eleven or twelve) are called young learners.
Why Should You Know Their Characteristics?
Knowing the characteristics of young learners is essential for teachers in primary school to be able to build successful lessons for them and involve them fully in the learning process.
Teachers need to understand young learners’ cognitive, linguistic, and emotional aspects because this will play a crucial role in how the teacher achieves the objectives of a lesson, and how young learners respond.
As teachers, we should draw on all the characteristics that kids bring to school, and systematically link them to the activities that we use with young learners.
Continue reading to recognize the main characteristics of young learners, tips to make a success in teaching them and activities to use with them
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