Kiddie English: A Guide To Teaching Kindergarten and Primary School Children - Tapa blanda

Kiddie English is a practical, hands-on guide to teaching English to young children. The ideas and resources in this book will help EFL teachers in kindergartens and primary schools around the world to be effective, creative and satisfied . Most English teachers work with children at some point during their teaching careers. Children are often enthusiastic about learning, full of energy, quick to imitate the teacher’s pronunciation and proud of their new vocabulary. However, teaching children is very different from teaching teens or adults - their attention span is short, they get bored easily and are difficult to control, and testing illiterate kindergarteners seems impossible. Kiddie English is a manual for English teachers and students of didactics, designed to help them learn appropriate techniques for planning children’s classes, relating to children, motivating them, finding appropriate activities for different stages in the child’s life, presenting new material in English to children who don’t yet understand the language, testing children who can’t read or write yet, controlling the group and engaging children’s interest. An additional section provides songs, games, stories and pictures which teachers can incorporate in their lessons or use as rewards. Most of the ideas and all of the drawings come from the author’s 20 years of teaching experience or from observing other successful teachers.

Virginia Stuart Blair Calhoun, a native of Wooster, Ohio, U.S.A., received her B.A. in Liberal Arts from Kenyon College in Ohio in 1980 and her ICELT (English language teaching certification) from the British Council in 2006. She has lived in Chiapas, married to Francisco Millán Velasco, since 1982. With over 20 years of English teaching experience, Professor Calhoun has taught at all levels from kindergarten to university. Professor at the Campus III Language School of the Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas since 2000, Virginia Calhoun has taught Teaching Methodology for Kindergarten and Primary School, Introduction to Didactics and other subjects in the B.A. Program there, as well as presenting talks at several national English Language Teaching conferences. Along with her colleagues Maria Luisa Avila Losada and Ivan Perez Roman, Professor Calhoun is also coauthor of The Long and Winding Road: A life story of the English Language (UNACH, 2010).