3rd week...working with young learner...

For this week, we used our ‘text’ book and we were assigned to discuss chapter 1 (Working with Young Language Learners) in our groups. We were divided into 6 groups because there are 6 small bullets that each group needs to discuss.

1.1 Children’s ability to grasp meaning

1.2 Children’s creative use of limited language resources

1.3 Children’s capacity for indirect learning

1.4 Children’s instinct for play and fun

1.5 The role of imagination

1.6 The instinct for interaction and talk

For my group, we were given topic 1.5, The role of imagination. Children are very good in imagination and fantasy. The act of fantasizing, of imagining, is very much an authentic part of being a child. Thus, they love to describe something that sometimes is out of the box. Imagination also provides another very powerful stimulus for real language use. Thus, it can stimulate the children’s creative imagination so that they want to use the language to share their ideas.