Teaching English for Young Learners

What is language?

• What people use to eat

• A form of communicating, whether spoken, written, or signed that is based on a system of languages

• A weather machine

• A form of communicating based on only spoken words

Which one is not a component of language?

• Sound

• form

• meaning

• reading

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

Who believed that infants are born hardwired with an internal biological mechanism to learn language? He described this mechanism LAD (Language Acquistion Device).

• Psychologist Eric Lenneberg

• Linguist Noam Chomsky

• Educationalist Maria Montessori

• Psychologist Jerome Bruner

Which one is not helpful in English language learning?

• creating exposure

• intolerant attitude to errors

• supportive environment

• encouraging learners

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

Which one is the receptive skill of language?

• listening

• speaking

• writing

• thinking

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

The second language acquisition stage where students observe others having conversations & they don't speak.

• Stage 1 Silent Receptive or Preproduction

• Stage 2 Early Production

• Stage 3 Speech Emergence

• Stage 4 Intermediate Language Proficiency

Second language acquisition stage where students speak using one or two word answers.

• Stage 1 Silent Receptive

• Stage 2 Early Production

• Stage 3 Speech Emergence

• Stage 4 Intermediate Language Proficiency

Second language acquisition stage where students are able to use short phrases.

• Stage 1 Silent Receptive

• Stage 2 Early Production

• Stage 3 Speech Emergence

• Stage 5 Advanced Language Proficiency

Preschoolers learn best by :

• Participating in everyday experiences

• Listening

• Reading lots of books

• worksheets

Which of the following is NOT one of the four integral language skills that all English Language Learners should practice?

• reading

• spelling

• listening

• writing