Which features primary schools have?

Which features primary schools have?
What is the general physical characteristic of a primary school child?
Their coordination

What are the children develop skills in five main areas of development?

Cognitive development
Social and emotional
Speech and language
Fine motor skill
Gross motor skill

Cognitive development - this is the child's ability to learn and solve problems. For example, this includes a two-month-old baby learning to explore the environment with hands or eyes or a five-year-old learning how to do simple math problems

…social and emotional - this is the child's ability to interact with others, including helping themselves and self-control. Examples of this type of development would include: a six-week-old baby smiling, a ten-month-old baby waving bye-bye, or a five-year-old boy knowing how to take turns in games at school
…speech and language - this is the child's ability to both understand and use language. For example, this includes a 12-month-old baby saying his first words, a two-year-old naming parts of her body, or a five-year-old learning to say "feet" instead of "foots"
The optimal period for learning languages?
Three and six age
Teaching English in primary schools has several purposes. They are categorized into two major parts. What are they?
Interaction and socializm

The purposes of socialization are…?

-to help children to recognize a wider society,
- to enable them to mingle with their peers
-to work with them

The aims of interaction are

to help children to acquire and use information, like learning how to spell;
- to help children to acquire other physical skills, such as cutting, handwriting;
- and help children to acquire complex skills such as reading.
What is TEAL?
teaching English as an additional language (TEAL) may also be terms that are used, but they generally all refer to the same thing - teaching English to someone whose native language is not English.

When were early stages of language were written down as a set of rules?

In the fifth century B. C.

Who stated a thorough education consists not only of the acquisition of knowledge, but the physical, mental, emotional, moral and social development of the individual?

Hewitt (1984)

What is Buzz Session?

Participants come together in session groups that focus on a single topic. Within each group, every student contributes thoughts and ideas.

Who is the developer of TPR?

American psychologist James Asher in the 1970s.

Kinesthetic learner- children learn by doing more often than not so effective TPR can not only help develop a childs foreign language ability, it simply make class more fun and engaging. Remember, when your student is having fun, your having fun.

One of the disadvantages of using realia in the classroom mentioned by Daniela Temo is…

( The materials may be too culturally biased, so unnecessarily difficult to understand outside the language community.
( The vocabulary might not be relevant to the student's immediate needs.
( Too many structures can be mixed, so lower level students might have a hard time decoding the texts.
( Special preparation is necessary which can be time consuming.
( With listening tasks, too many different accents can be heard which can cause some confusions.
( The material can become outdated easily, e.g. news.
( There are many headlines, adverts, signs, and so on that can require good knowledge of the cultural background.