ANNUNCIATION COLLEGE OF BACON SORSOGON CITY UNIT INC.

Magsaysay Avenue, Sorsogon City

Name: YOLANDA E. DASALLA

Subject: TEACHING ENGLISH AS SECOND LANGUAGE

Topic: YOUNG CHILDREN LEARNING ENGLISH

Professor: DR. JOSEPH GUAB

Summer 2022

I. Objectives

1. Know the learning English skills and ability of young

children.
2. Develop the learning english skills and ability of young
children
3. Help the young learners develop their reading ability in
English.

II. Contents

 Introduction

The learning of English by young children is by no means

as common as at later stage and the nature of the younger
learner probably affects contents and methods more than
with other age groups.
 English in the Primary School

 The learning of English as a foreign language by the

children of wealthy parents who engage in English “ miss”
is a tradition as long-standing in Europe nd elsewhere as
the importation of ´Mademoiselle” or a “Fraulein´into
upperclass households in Britain.
 The teaching of Foreign languages in the Ellementary
School-the FLES movement. To use the American level-
attracted strong support from the council of Europe and
flourished in a number of countries during the 1960’s.

 The optimum starting age

 As million of children have witnessed in the bi-lingual

areas of the world, a second and even a third language
can be acquired from the very earliest ages, without any
seeming effort or retardation of the mother tongue.
 Teachers of English in the foreign primary school have
argued that their children are uninhibited, positively
enjoy most of the repetitive kinds of language activities
and are ready for situational ( as opposed to intellectual)
learning.

 The young learner

  The nature of the very young learner does not appear to
vary noticeably from nation to nation, and this suggests
that the same general psychological and methodological
principles hold good for teachers of the youngest children
wherever they are.

 Language Content
 The introduction of reading and writing in English should not
take place until a fluent oral foundation has been established
and , in foreign language situations, not until the children are
familiar with the printed word in the mother tongue.
 There can be no doubt that primary school children can and do
learn English with remarkable ease, enthusiasm and
naturalness. Perhaps , the saddest aspect of the FLES
movement has been the problem of continuity; for unless the
early learning of English is designed and functions as parts of a
process which continues unbroken in secondary schooling the
sense of frustration in both children and teachers is
considerable.

III. Evaluation

1. As teacher, How did you know that the young children really
learn and understand well the english word ?

IV. Key to Correction

V. References

Teaching English as Foreign language

Second Edition

Geoffrey Broughton

Christopher Brumfit

Roger Flevell

Peter Hill

Anita Pincas