Pathways to teach EFL to young learners

Abstract

Now that in many schools children start learning a foreign language early, particularly in schools with bilingual programmes, there is a necessity of effective methodologies that work with learners of that age. The goal of this article is to present teaching methodologies to help practitioners to teach English during the first years at school. Firstly, child second language acquisition is considered. Secondly, innovative pathways to teach English to young learners are presented. The last section looks at some pedagogical implications.