Teaching English through play
Sentence construction awareness in nursery and primary education
Keywords:
Playing with grammar, Primary English teaching, Nursery English teaching, Phonological awareness, Learning by playing, Learning by moving, Bilingual educationAbstract
Teaching English to young learners is a priority in our globalised society, especially within the growing context of bilingual schools. Thus, it is necessary to find a strategy that allows young learners to grasp the knowledge of the foreign language at a structural level. Nonetheless, children’s cognitive development does not allow for grammatical explanations, it is thus that a tried and tested sequence of activities is provided for primary and pre-primary schoolteachers to be able to incorporate in their teaching, which will develop phonological awareness of the English language at a structural level, thanks to games, manipulation and movement.
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