young learners
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Teaching young learners is a different kind of teaching than adults. This is just a start on the journey.
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Young Learners of English
Robert DickeyKeimyung University
Critical / Sensitive Period
2-10 “very young learners”
Schooling – Social Warehousing
Schooling – Social Warehousing
• Public Schools (Nat’l Curriculum)• Public Schools after-school programs• Private Language Schools• International/Foreign Schools
(English-medium)• Private Tutors• Independent Study Programs• Unstructured Language Study
Language Learning / Acquisition
• “Immersion”– Language Showers– Immersion Schooling– Immersion Travel
• Plurilingualism
Krashen’s i+1 andVygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development
rjdickey@content-english.org
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