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YOUNG LEARNER COURSES
Young Learner Courses at King's College are open to children from approximately five to eight years old. The emphasis in all our Young Learner classes is involving the student in the learning process through actions, games, songs and other activities which foster multi-sensory learning. While the basic tense structure of English is covered during the course, students are encouraged to see language learning as a challenging and exciting experience.
Young Learner Course Methodology
The Young Learner Course is based on a child-centred approach which recognizes that young children learn in a way that is different from adults. We do not teach language as an abstract system, which children find difficult to understand. Instead we present the language through concrete situations and objects taken from the child's world. Young children learn through doing, so we encourage children to internalize new language by acting, playing games drawing and colouring and chanting and singing songs. The Course recognizes the need for young students to constantly revise and recycle the language they have learnt. Teachers at King's College are very much aware that children need praise and encouragement, and need to feel a sense of progress and achievement.
Young Learner Preparation
Our Starter Class is a preparation course for students who have had little or no experience of the English language, and who may have had limited experience of learning in a classroom environment. The Jolly Phonics system is introduced to associate the sounds of English with the letters in a fun and exciting way.
Young Learner Text
Students enter the world of English through the characters in our child-centred multimedia textbook series Get Set Go! published by Oxford University Press. The appealing characters, colour illustrations and cartoons, dialogues, stories, rhymes, songs and games capture the students' attention and interest while they progress through a structural syllabus of English. The vocabulary at each level is carefully chosen to match the interests of young students.
The Student's Book focuses on oral and listening activities, while the Workbook provides extra practice of the language taught and provides reading and writing activities.
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