Full Description
This book addresses the development of young language learners' oracy skills. It offers theoretical and pedagogical perspectives, and presents ideas for teaching listening, speaking, and thinking effectively in second language and bilingual contexts. It also emphasizes the value of young learners' metacognitive awareness about their learning and shows how this can be incorporated into everyday classroom practices for oracy instruction. Collectively, the chapters offer theory-practice connections in the teaching and learning of oracy in classroom settings, as well as teacher-scaffolded informal learning beyond the classroom. It is both empirically- and practice-driven, and informed by rigorous theories of oracy development and the authors' own research inquiry and rich experience. With its diverse global perspectives on oracy development, this book presents an important contribution to the literature on the language development of young learners. It also serves as an important reference for teacher educators, graduate students, teachers, and language education researchers.
Contents
Conceptualizing oracy development for young language learners an introduction.- Overview of bilingual acquisition of oracy in young learners.- Principles and practices for teaching oracy skills to young l2 learners.- Materials for helping young learners to develop oracy skills.- Assessing young language learners oracy skills developments challenges and promises.- Using childrens literature for oracy development in the primary school.- Promoting oracy development in young learners through project based learning.- Using communication tasks to develop young learners oracy skills.- Enhancing oracy development in young learners through explicit and contextualized instruction.- Teaching pronunciation to young learners.- Enhancing young EFL learners oracy and vocabulary development through picture book reading mediation.- Technology enhanced metacognitive pedagogical sequence for developing young learners listening skills.- Using technology to develop young learners oracy skills.- Technology assisted extensive listening and viewing for young learners.- Formative assessment of speaking for young learners using generative artificial intelligence.- Developing young learners talk and thinking skills for group discussions.- Developing metacognition to enhance young learners speaking.- Facilitating childrens oracy skills through digital storytelling.
