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Cambridge English: Young Learners, also known as Young Learners English Tests ( YLE ), is a suite of English language tests specially designed for children in primary and lower-secondary school. The tests are provided by Cambridge English Language Assessment (previously known as University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations).
The Young Learners Tests of English (YLTE) are a set of English language tests for learners in primary and middle grades. The tests are developed by CaMLA, a not-for-profit collaboration between the University of Michigan and the University of Cambridge . The tests cover all four language skills: listening, reading, writing and speaking.
PTE Young Learners (formerly known as LTEfC) is an English language exams for young children (aged from 7 to 12) who learning English as a foreign language. They test the four skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking. PTE Young Learners exams are based around the adventures of the Brown family.
Total physical response (TPR) is a language teaching method developed by James Asher, a professor emeritus of psychology at San José State University. It is based on the coordination of language and physical movement. In TPR, instructors give commands to students in the target language with body movements, and students respond with whole-body ...
TEYL: teaching English to young learners; TPR: Total Physical Response; TPRS: Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling; UNIcert is a European language education system of many universities based on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
CELTA for teachers of adult learners. CELTA focuses on teaching adult learners, but many of the skills and techniques apply to teaching young learners as well. Candidates who plan to teach mainly young learners could take the Young Learner Extension to CELTA, after completing Celta until 2010 when Young Learner Extension ceased to exist.
Difficulties for learners Young Jayaji Rao Sindhia, Maharaja of Gwalior, studying English, 1846. Language teaching practice often assumes that most of the difficulties that learners face in the study of English are the consequence of the degree to which their native language differs from English (a contrastive analysis approach).
Deeper learning. In U.S. education, deeper learning is a set of student educational outcomes including acquisition of robust core academic content, higher-order thinking skills, and learning dispositions. Deeper learning is based on the premise that the nature of work, civic, and everyday life is changing and therefore increasingly requires ...