TESOL- Variable Teaching Tools Are Necessary For Young Learner

Variable Teaching Tools Are Necessary For Young Learner

Teachers of young language learners should use variable teaching tools to support their teaching process. For example, puppets, paper dolls, cardboard boxes, picture cards and so on are good teaching tools. Because the young language learners know few vocabularies,so they are not able to understand a long content. Young learners are unable to keep concentration over 20 minutes, and very curious, so different tools and activities must be available in classroom.

Firstly, variable teaching tools allow variable classroom activities to happen. And those activities should be instructed with clear instruction and structure. The fun activities can motivate students to learn faster. A puppet is very useful if you want to perform dialogues and sketches, paper bag puppets, glove puppets, hand puppets or finger puppets are all suitable for young children, they imagine those puppets as a real person, they talk to puppets, they look after puppets. English corner is also a good example of create classroom activities, a teacher can read with students one by one in an English corner, and it makes young children feel warm and comfortable.

Secondly, teaching tools like picture cards or card games are effective for students to match the meaning with the English words.   Pictures can be drawings or cut-outs from magazines, or perhaps photos. Teachers can organize a competition among different groups to compete matching new vocabulary with pictures. As for card games, almost all card games can be made into language card games while teachers want to concentrate on games where some sort of language interaction is taking place.

Last but not least, teaching tools is beneficial for natural approach. Some tools used for visual presentation for students to watch，to touch and even to smell, Which stimulate the perception growing as the use of tools activates multiple intellectual sections in brain. The more the sense organs engaged during the   language learning process， the better the kids could acquire a second language.

Therefore, the teachers of young language learners should know clearly how to use variable teaching tools, so can they stimulate and motivate students in language learning process.