Young language learners are those who are learning a foreign or second language and who
are doing so during the first six or seven years of formal schooling (primary
or elementary school) and are aged between 5 to 12 years old. Young learners of
a new language may be classified as Bilingual
learners are those
learners who learn two (or more) languages to some level of proficiency (Bialystok,
2001, p. 5), foreign
language learners learning
a language in a situation where the language is seldom heard outside the
classroom, and second language learners are usually members of a
minority language group in a country where the majority of their peers have
spoken the language from birth. Second language learners do not need to speak
both languages fully to be bilingual, especially in a second language situation.
After rewind it a little bit what young learners are and their clasification according to their learning context...
After rewind it a little bit what young learners are and their clasification according to their learning context...
I found this video on Youtube which shows two ways where teachers
are assessing communication (Storytelling and oral presentation about real life
issues) on young learners with some insights from teachers and students which I
believe it would be helpful for our work, giving us some ideas how to avoid
traditional teaching and assessment methods, when assessing young learners.
