This document discusses approaches for teaching English to different age groups. For children, it recommends focusing on their intellectual development, short attention spans, sensory input, building self-esteem, and using authentic language. For teenagers, it defines them as those aged 13-19 experiencing transition and self-consciousness. It provides tips for teaching teenagers such as establishing rapport the first day, using firm but fair discipline, setting short-term goals, employing creative motivation, and incorporating humor into lessons. The document examines age-appropriate considerations and strategies for effectively teaching English to both children and teenagers.

1. TEACHING ACROSS AGE LEVEL
(YOUNG)

2. Teaching English to Children
 Children are active learners and thinkers.
(Piaget, 1970)
 Children's natural ability to acquire new
languages is strong before adolescence.
 Five categories may help give some practical
approaches to teach children.

3. Intellectual Development
 Don’t explain grammar using terms like
“present progressive” or “relative clause.”
 Some grammatical concepts, especially at the
upper levels of childhood, can be called to
learner’s attention by showing them certain
patterns.

4. Attention Span
 Children are focused on the immediate here
and now, activities should be designed to
capture their immediate interest.
 A lesson needs a variety of activities to keep
interest and attention alive.
 A sense of humor will go along way to keep
children laughing and learning.

5. Sensory input
 Pepper your lessons with physical activity,
such as having students act out things (role-
play, games, etc).
 Projects and other hands-on activities go a
long way toward helping children to internalize
language.
 Sensory aids here and there help children to
internalize concepts.

6. Affective Factors
 Help your students to laugh with each other at
various mistakes that they all make.
 Be patient and supportive to build self-esteem,
yet the same time be firm in your expectations
of students.
 Elicit as much or participation as possible from
students, especially the quieter ones, to give
them plenty of opportunities for trying things
out.

7. Authentic, Meaningful
Language
 Children are good at sensing language that is
not authentic.
 Language needs to be firmly context
embedded. Context-reduced language in
abstract, unconnected sentences will be much
less readily tolerated by children’s minds.
 A whole languange approach is essensial.

8. Teaching English to Teenagers
 “Teaching teenagers isn’t easy because, well,
being a teenager isn’t easy” - Gary Underson

9. Teaching English to Teenagers
 “Adolescents are often seen as problem
students, but with their great ability for abstract
thought and enthusiastic commitment to what
they are doing once they are engaged, ‘teens
may well be the most exciting students of all” -
Harmer J.

10. Teenager: a Definition
 A teenager, or teen, is a young person whose
age falls within the range from thirteen through
nineteen (13–19).

11. Teaching Process
Children
Teenager
Young
Adult
Adult

12. Psychological Condition of
Teenager
 Teen is age of transition, confusion, self-
consciousness, growing, and changing bodies
and minds.
 It is a condition where someone is not mature,
but not children anymore.

13. Teaching Source & Activities

14. Tips for Teaching Teen (Worgan
M.)
 1. The First Day: The first few days are crucial
to the way the course will run. This is the time
when the students will make unconscious
decisions about what kind of teacher you are.

15. Tips for Teaching Teen (Worgan
M.)
 2. Don’t be strict: Research has shown that
firm but fair teachers are preferred by this age
group. Many times teachers are tempted to
treat a group of sixteen year- olds as adults,
but the fact is that emotionally they are not.

16. Tips for Teaching Teen (Worgan
M.)
 3. Short-Term goals: For the teacher, the
school year may fly by, but for the average
fifteen-year-old, though, a year can be a very
long time.

17. Tips for Teaching Teen (Worgan
M.)
 4. Motivation: You need to motivate your
students creatively to follow your lesson.

18. Tips for Teaching Teen (Worgan
M.)
 5. Humor: A good laugh now and again can
motivate teenagers to want to come to class.
Make up stories or ask them to help you solve
a problem or to introduce a grammar point that
they actually know.

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