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Teaching EFL to Young Learners

 

 

Participants of Teaching EFL to Young Learners TEFL2YL EVO19 will learn about and create activities for English to Young Learners and Teens from around the world using storytelling, board games, action songs, and limited resource classroom activities. 

 

 

Session Objectives

 

By the end of this workshop, participants will have:

 

  • discussed challenges and activities involved in teaching EFL to young learners.

  • discussed methods of teaching young learners via storytelling; games; actions songs; arts & crafts.

  • created activities using storytelling; board games; action songs; arts & crafts.

  • created video tutorials to document work.  

 

 

Target audience

 

TEFL2YL is designed for teachers, parents, caregivers, and everyone involved in teaching young learners and teens irrespective of context or degree of experience. Participants will be expected to have the basic skills necessary to facilitate communication via an online discussion group.

 

 


Syllabus 

 

Weekly Content

 

 

 

Week 1  (January 13-19) Getting Acquainted with Nellie Deutsch and Sheryl McCoy 

 

During week 1 of the course, participants will

 

  • get acquainted with the other members

  • get acquainted with the video tutorial tools

  • get acquainted with the editor and learn to use PoodLL 
  • brainstorm and discuss topical issues of concern in teaching EFL to young learners around the world

 

 

Week 2  (January 20-26) Storytelling and Drama with Nellie Deutsch and Judy Wong

 

Learn to use and practice the dramatic art of storytelling in your classroom

 

During week 2 of the course, participants will:

 

  • read research articles on storytelling as a way for young learners to learn English language skills 

  • discuss storytelling in the YL classroom 

  • consider the benefits and challenges involved in using storytelling in the classroom

  • create activities that involving storytelling

 

 

Week 3   (January 27 - February 2) Board Games with Nives Torresi and Sheryl McCoy

 

During week 3 of the course, participants will

 

  • read research articles on learning English language skills via board games 

  • discuss board games in the YL classroom 

  • consider the benefits and challenges involved in using board games

  • create activities that involve board games

 

 

Week 4  (February 3-9) Action Songs with Charles Goodger

 

Action Songs and CLIL  - Best Practices for Primary School Primary School Teachers 

 

During week 4, participants will

 

  • examine the significance of meaning in a melody and meaning in language and ponder their parallels and implications for language learning

  • understand the benefits of presenting new language through music and mime, rhythm and rhyme using TPR (Total Physical Response)  techniques 

  • develop a grounding of  CLIL to integrate into a classroom module presented through a specific action song 

  • practice and review CLIL-based worksheets and activities based on action songs 

 

 

Week 5  (February 10-16) Creating Class Resources with Julie Pratten 

 

During week 5, participants will: 

 

  • Discuss the zero to low resource classroom
  • Develop a Maker Space on Padlet  
  • Create resources using the following mixed materials for the EFL young learners' classroom:  
    • cardboard and boxes
    • yoghurt pots
    • tin cans
    • canes
    • old newspapers and magazines
    • old sheets or pieces of fabric
    • paper mache
    • string
    • rubber bands 
    • paints, paint brushes and coloured markers
    • thin rubber gloves
    • craft glue 
    • whatever bits and bobs you have

 

  • Showcase reflections of the EVO session using presentations and video tutorials on Padlet. 

 

 


Session Communication Tools

 

  • Moodle LMS 
  • WizIQ Virtual Class
  • ZOOM 

 

 

Technology:

 

Power Point presentations, Plotagon, Storyboard That, Padlet, and video authoring tutorials using Screencast-o-matic to reflect and share.

 

 


Sponsors

 

IATEFL YLTSIG

 

Join this session

 

 

Registration starts on Jan 6, 2019. 

 

 

To join this session:

 

  1. Log in first and each time clicking on one of the following icons on the site (bottom right): Gmail, Facebook, Microsoft, or LinkedIn
  2. Enrol in Teaching EFL for Young Learners EVO 2019 

 


 


Moderators

Moderators: 

 

Name (last, first)

Email address

Location (country of residence)

Biodata (not more than 50 words)  

Picture 

Deutsch, Nellie

nellie.muller.deutsch@gmail.com

Canada 

Nellie Deutsch (Ed.D)(see Bio) is an EFL teacher and teacher trainer. She coaches teachers and admin on how to teach with and manage Moodle courses and websites. She's an instructional designer and facilitator of fully online and blended learning programs using Moodle, WizIQ, Adobe Connect, Congrea (on Moodle), ZOOM, Google drive, Sceencast--o-Matic, Wikieducator, YouTube, Vimeo, Knovio, and active learning presentation tools that focus on teaching as a way to learn.

 

Torresi, Nives

nives_torresi@hotmail.com

Italy

Nives Torresi is a Teacher, at Classical Studies High School (Italy), of English Conversation & English Drama; English Exam Preparation (Cambridge FCE & PET) and Business English to local corporations.

Nives also translates from Italian to English (specializing in Business Manuals, Historical archives & Medical papers), works as Interpreter and Mediator for Business negotiations.

Also teaches online via interactive learning platforms for Business & Conversation English courses & Language tutoring. Participates actively in online Teacher Training or development courses such as Moodle for Teachers and Teaching with Technology,

More about Nives

 

Charles Goodger

goodger.charles@gmail.com

Italy

Charles Goodger is a composer, writer, and teacher-trainer. Founder of the FunSongs Method of teaching English he is particularly interested in helping the teacher to use creative forms of expression in the learning process: music, and mime, rhythm, and rhyme. Charles loves the collective enjoyment of children singing, moving and performing in an entertainingly convincing way. 

 

Kacmaz (Pratten), Julie

juliekacmaz@gmail.com

Turkey

Julie Pratten Kacmaz is a writer, and EFL teacher and teacher trainer, with three decades, experience in teaching English as a Foreign Language. She has worked in over 25 countries, including Brazil, Germany, Lithuania, and Paraguay. Nowadays, she lives in Turkey with her husband, two cats, two dogs, and chickens.

 
Wong, Judy theaterforell@gmail.com  USA 

Judy is a native New Yorker who is a visual & performing artist, a writer and currently an English teacher to speakers of other languages. She is part of the ELI Adjunct Faculty at PACE University in New York City, USA and an advisory board member of EFLtalks (online EFL teachers' teaching teachers webinar group) who has been known to occasionally collaborate with her international colleagues in Armenia and Croatia. Judy has taught ages 3-80 yrs old students dance, acting, elocution and Pre-K-12 academics through the arts as a guest artist. Ever passionate, she is combining her two passions (theater arts and English teaching) to work on bringing together a forward thinking group of artists and educators to develop new original culturally relevant theater for ESOL audiences. Judy holds a BS in Liberal Arts /Teaching Academics through the Arts and a MA in TESOL from the New School University in NYC, USA.

“We are teachers as well as students and our students are our teachers” 

 
McCoy, Sheryl n2teaching2@gmail.com  Erie, Kansas USA 

“Learning is an adventure for life” is the vision that Sheryl McCoy shares. She teaches and judges online and face-to-face contests, workshops, and courses,developing a fusion of teaching tools, Inquiry based skills, and interests.

Sheryl earned a Bachelor's degree in Elementary Ed, as well as a Masters degree in Curriculum & Instruction in Environmental Science at Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, Kansas.

Today, Sheryl lives with her family on their sustainable farm in the Central Plains of the United States where she works and volunteers in a variety of settings, including face to face and online within informal education networks.

 

 

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