Teaching English to children - Chapter I

• Authors: Maja Rogińska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The chapter introduces the most fundamental phenomena underlying teaching a foreign language to preschoolers. Therefore, three major components contribute to this issue. The first one deals with teaching a foreign language; the second highlights the child’s developmental characteristics, mainly cognitive, physical, and motoric. And the last component is a significance of movement. These three facets are discussed throughout the chapter.

Keywords

EN

children; foreign language; teaching English

• Journal: World Scientific News
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 1
• Pages: 1-8

Contributors

author

Maja Rogińska

• The Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, 1 Wieniawskiego Street, 61-712 Poznań, Poland,

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• Document Type: article