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WHY TELL STORIES TO CHILDREN?

Children love listening to stories. It is a natural way for them to assimilate a language. For this reason, teachers use storytelling as a perfect introduction to the foreign language in a familiar context. What is more, stories are motivating and develope social skills.
3/12/2015

HOW CHILDREN ASSIMILATE A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

It is believed that children can start learning a foreign language as early as possible even if they cannot speak their mother tongue. It is crucial to organise optimal conditions to learn the language naturally in the same way as the first language.
31/10/2015

TEACHING PRONUNCIATION

To avoid misunderstanding the learners have to differentiate between English sounds. That is why activities to practice sound pronunciation, word stress and intonation are crucial for the learning process.
16/9/2015

GARDNER'S MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES

A teacher, who would like to organize a great lesson involving all students, has to take into consideration that everyone learns in different way. Howard Gardner lists eight types of intelligence which have direct influence on people's learning style.
26/7/2015

TEACHING GRAMMAR STRUCTURES

Before presenting new grammar material, a teacher should decide which structure or its part will be taught. It should be introduced with the use of well-known vocabulary, because the grammar rule should be the only difficulty.
21/7/2015

INTRODUCTION NEW LEXICAL ITEMS

New vocabulary should be presented in a well-known context. A new word has to be the only difficulty. The teacher can also show a picture, a gesture or an object that help students to understand the meaning of a new item.
6/7/2015

FORMS AND CAUSES OF DYSLEXIA

About 10% of students have specific learning disabilities that should be taken into considaration during organisation of teaching process. They are not all the same, they have to cope with different difficulties - with reading (dyslexia), handwriting (dysgraphia), spelling (dysortographia), counting (dyscalculia), music (dysmusia) or mixed disorder of scholastic skills.
6/2/2015
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