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Primary school children go through a series of developmental stages and acquire social
and independent skills progressively. When we teach children a foreign language we have to take
into account their developmental stage and adapt tasks accordingly. Small children should not be
asked to perform sophisticated tasks and, on the other hand, beginners of 11 or 12 should not be
faced to activities that they may consider below their intellectual level. As a general rule,
children treat language according to what they can do with it rather than an abstract system of
rules. They show a high degree of motivation and tend to enjoy tasks because their learning is
often unselfconscious.