Engaging young learners in English:

Age-appropriate methods and materials

Annotation:

This article explores effective strategies as well as age-appropriate materials for engaging young learners in English. It highlights have storytelling, creative activities and emotional encouragement can build confidence and interest in English at early ages. This paper also gives some information about the benefits of songs and playful routines improving communication skills in learning a second language.

Key words:

age-appropriate methodologies, play-based methods, learning strategies, activities, English language teaching.

Introduction

It is obvious that it can be both interesting and difficult to teach English to young children. Cause you know that almost every child do not want to pay more attention to learn something for a long time. Especially when it comes to learning English through ordinary learning methods like memorizing and repeating new vocabulary words. This seems chaotic to children and they want to stop.

But at the time, there are plenty of new teaching methods like playing games in English or watching English cartoons instead of only repeating new vocabulary words again and again. That is the reason why this article is based on learning the English language in the young learner’s academic life. Moreover,  this paper will analyze the effect of games in English and show the mastery of learning English without any difficulty. 

Methods:

The role of games :

Playing games in English can be an effective tool for developing children’s speech and improving their pronunciation. First of all, this method helps them not to feel bored. As a result, they can train in English for hours with huge interest. 

Using from modern technologies in learning language :

It is clear that modern technologies are becoming popular among the population , especially in the life of young ages . These kind of multimedia tools are really essential for capturing the attention for young learners. Short videos and interactive games always attract them and so if we use from them in the right way , for example , in teaching , it gives us lots of benefits and we can achieve success in teaching English to beginners. Cause you know that it seems more interesting for young children to learn the second language through media than ordinary methods. 

Conclusion 

Games-based learning is one of the most effective ways to teach English to young learners. 

Furthermore, by encouraging motivation, enhancing vocabulary acquisition, improving speaking skills, and leading to greater educational success in general, games offer a dynamic, fun, and creative alternative to traditional methods of teaching. 

The databases can be integrated into educators’ curriculum with the assistance of these approaches that will facilitate the improvement of language in the academic life of young children.

References:

1. Cameron, L. (2001). Teaching Languages to Young Learners. Cambridge University Press.

2. Brewster, J., Ellis, G., & Girard, D. (2002). The Primary English Teacher’s Guide. Penguin English.

3. “The Benefits of Using Games in Language Teaching.” British Council

Future linguist | Article writer

Debate Speaker 

Dilshoda Jurayeva, born on January 30,2008 in Jondor, Bukhara region of Uzbekistan, is a diligent language learner.

She began her academic journey at school No. 25 and this year she graduated from the school with good grades. During her school years she achieved to Cefr with English and national certifications in Mother Tongue and History. Then, she was accepted to the faculty of philology and teaching languages of Bukhara State University with the maximum score – 189.

She is an active member of the Ibrat debate project. Besides that, she has participated in various online/offline projects like SwapUp and Yk as a participant in her school years.