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Critical Period?
The Effects of
Language Learning
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Principles for Teaching Young Learners of English
The ability to
-talk to more people,
-read more books,
-experience other cultures
Jean Piaget
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Assimilation Assimilation
Kitty Kitty
Accommodation
Doggie
Kitty Recent Studies
of the Brain
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Principles for Teaching Young Learners of English
How reading
changes language
learning
4. School performance of
students learning a second
language
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Principles for Teaching Young Learners of English
Principle 1 Principle 2
Offer learners enjoyable, active Help students develop and practice
roles in the learning experience language through collaboration
Principle 3 Principle 4
Use multi-dimensional, thematically- Provide comprehensible input with
organized activities scaffolding
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Principle 5 Principle 6
Integrate language with content Validate and integrate home language
and culture
Principle 7 Principle 8
Provide clear goals and feedback on Develop learner’s own strategies for
performance language development
Learning languages is
exponentially beneficial
w Improved cognition & brain
Implications development
& Considerations w Improved L1 proficiency
w Improved academic performance
w Improved abilities in social, cultural
understanding
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Anonymous Anonymous
-Martin Steingesser
I know a poem of six lines that no one
knows imagine that poem, written
who wrote, except by a poet truly
that the poet was Chinese and lived who is Anonymous, since
centuries before the birth of in the strict corporeal sense
Christ. I said it aloud he hasn't existed for thousands of
once to some children, and when I years--imagine his little
reached
poem
the last line suddenly they
understood and together all went-- traveling
"Ooo!"
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Anonymous
without gas or even a single grease The Multiplier Effect of
job
across centuries of space and a Language Learning
million
miles of time Mary Lou McCloskey, Ph.D.
to me, who spoke it Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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and suddenly all together cried
"Ooo!" October 2005
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