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Cambridge English: Young Learners, formerly 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 the Cambridge Assessment English (previously known as the University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations).
UCLES worked with Homerton College (a teacher training college within the University of Cambridge) to trial test questions with over 3,000 children in Europe, South America and South East Asia. The feedback was used to construct the first Young Learners English (YLE) tests, targeted at learners aged 6–12, which went live in 1997.
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.
The Young Learners Tests of English ( YLTE) is a set of English language tests for learners in primary and middle grades. The tests are developed by CaMLA, a non-profit collaboration between the University of Michigan and the University of Cambridge . The tests cover all four language skills: listening, reading, writing and speaking.
It is often assumed that young children learn languages more easily than adolescents and adults. [2] [5] However, the reverse is true; older learners are faster.For example, a study of 17,000 British students showed that those who started learning French aged 11 performed better than those who started learning it aged 8. [6]
Early childhood education (ECE), also known as nursery education, is a branch of education theory that relates to the teaching of children (formally and informally) from birth up to the age of eight. [1] Traditionally, this is up to the equivalent of third grade. [2] ECE is described as an important period in child development.
CELTA focuses on teaching adult learners, but many of the skills and techniques apply to teaching young learners as well. [13] 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.
TEYL: teaching English to young learners [46] 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.
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