Childrens characteristics

as language learners
Good at reading the general
message
Have great skill in using limited language creatively
Learn indirectly rather than directly
Have an enormous capacity for finding and making
fun
Delight in imagination and fantasy Need to talk and interact
create unpredictability
Desire to communicate
Guessing=engagement with task / no focus on
language
Gestures, intonation
demonstration and facial
expressions are essential
to teach