This course introduces the students to the basic concepts of teaching English to young learners. It starts by describing the basic characteristics of young learners; namely, description of the child as a language learner, talks about its policy nationally and internationally, deals with teaching language skills to young learners and finally ends with how to evaluate young learners’ performance.

The differences between young learners and learners at other ages (in terms of learning of language structures, skills and sub-skills), misconceptions about young learners; learner styles (e.g.: visual, auditory, kinesthetic) and strategies (e.g.: meta cognitive, cognitive, socio affective) of young learners; activities (e.g.: puzzles, stories and games, simulations) and audio visual aids (e.g.: pictures, realia, cartoons, puppets, songs) for the teaching of vocabulary, language skills and structures; classroom management techniques necessary for young learner classrooms.