Lesson 1: How Do Young Learners Learn Languages?

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-Your Instructor
Evaluation of your answers:
1. According to Piaget, children develop ___.
You chose: by fitting new knowledge with old knowledge
Correct!
2. Children beginning to learn a foreign or second language initially need ____.
You chose: to have basic communicative language as a focus in the activities in their language
classes
Correct!
3. Children who use 'internalization' in acquiring a language (as noted by Vygotsky and Bruner) ___.
You chose: move thought from something that is spoken out loud to something that is kept as a
thought in their head
Correct!
4. When a child says, "I goed to the store yesterday," this child probably ___.
You chose: is trying to make sense of the rules of the language
Correct!Oh, you 'went' to the store yesterday.
5. According to Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, a child who learns best through
hands-on interaction with materials is demonstrating a tendency towards:
You chose: kinesthetic intelligence
Correct!

Lesson 2: Implications for Teaching English to Young

Learners

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Evaluation of your answers:
1. Children, in general, learn a foreign or second language when ___.
You chose: they are able to try things out, reflect on their learning and then try again
Correct!
2. It is important to be aware of the interest levels of our learners at different ages so that we can ___.
You chose: reflect this in the topics we choose for the English class
Correct!
3. When we introduce new language to our students, we should ___.
You chose: be sure to recycle that language again in different situations in follow-up lessons
Correct!
4. If our students require thinking time after we introduce something to them, this is likely to mean
that ___.
You chose: they are processing the information
Correct!
5. The main purpose of posting rules in a language class is to ___.
You chose: encourage students to be supportive of each other
Correct!

Lesson 3: Teaching Language to Young Learners

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Evaluation of your answers:
1. The best way to teach new language and grammar to our young language learners is by ___.
You chose: modeling the language ourselves or providing other models of the language
Correct!
2. Using a topic and activity-based approach to teaching young learners English will allow teachers to
___.
You chose: introduce language that is controlled, yet real and meaningful
Correct!
3. Language skills practiced in activities for our young learners need to ___.
You chose: reflect what these learners would be doing and saying with this language in their
everyday lives
Correct!
4. When young children begin their language learning, it can be useful to ___.
You chose: teach common phrases in chunks (such as Howdoyousay?)
Correct!
5. Allowing young learners to hear a variety of English voices in the class (through video recordings,
CDs, visitors) ___ .
You chose: can benefit students as it will allow them to receive a variety of input
Correct!

Lesson 4: Teaching Listening in English to Young Learners

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1. In the Listen and Order activity (that has students listen to the story The Enormous Snowball and
put the characters of that story in order), it is most important that young learners demonstrate their
ability to ____ .
You chose: recognize the parts of a story (beginning, middle and ending)
Correct!
2. The main purpose of Jigsaw Listening (where individual students are required to listen to a line of a
poem and then share that with their group until they have compiled the whole poem) is to ___ .
You chose: listen for meaning (in trying to put together a complete poem in groups)
Correct!
3. In an activity like Parts of a Song (where a song is divided into three parts and groups of students
have to listen to their part of the song and then try to imagine what happens in the other two
sections), the main purpose of this listening activity would be to ___ .
You chose: use their understanding of their part of the song to make predictions and complete a
story
Correct!
4. Generally speaking, the key benefit of a game like Bingo in a language classroom (where students
draw or write certain words on a game sheet and then listen for the teacher to say that word), is
that it allows ___ .
You chose: an enjoyable atmosphere where the emphasis is on having students demonstrate what
they know through a fun activity
Correct!
5. Providing lots of opportunities for different kinds of listening in the classroom ____.
You chose: can be used to help students develop their speaking, reading and writing skills as well
as their listening skills
Correct!