TEACHING VOCABULARY FOR YOUNG LEARNERS
Based on Puskás (2016:
34) wdesigning a course for young learners, the most central questions a
teacher has to answer include:
a. How much vocabulary do children need?
b. How much vocabulary is manageable for them to learn within a given time period?
c. How do children learn new words?
d. What vocabulary should be taught and how should it be taught?
When teaching foreign
language vocabulary to children, the teacher needs to keep in mind that young
learners are still building on their first language vocabulary and are still in
the process of acquiring and organizing concepts. The first language background
needs to be taken into account in order to know what will work and what may be
too difficult for children. It is also common sense that teaching names of
animals will go fine with young learners, however, teaching more complex
adjectives e.g. relevant, significant or exhausted to seven or eight year-olds
is rather a pointless effort. Basic level words are likely to be more
appropriate for young learners, while building up more sophisticated, complex
and abstract vocabulary should come later and should rely on basic vocabulary.
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