Models of Teaching Foreign Languages to Young Children

Conscious learning encourages accuracy while acquisition encourages fluency.

Acquisition can also be described as direct learning.

In early childhood education the focus is usually

What factors tend to influence our teaching method?

Songs, rhymes and poems are the most important activities for language learning at this stage.

Children in preschool have difficulty grasping the gist of a message.

Children in preschool are cognitively prepared to understand grammar explanations.

At the age of 4, children start being able to control their feelings and behaviour.

Many of the teaching methods that have been put forward since the 1970's contemplate the [blank_start]affective[blank_end] aspect of learning. Among them we can find Suggestopedia, Community Language [blank_start]Learning[blank_end], The [blank_start]Silent[blank_end] Way, the [blank_start]Communicative[blank_end] Approach, the [blank_start]Natural[blank_end] Approach, and Total [blank_start]Physical[blank_end] Response.