In May 2014 we published a video of Winnie Pang during her first class with a group of very young learners. In this video, we meet Winnie and her class again at the end of the school year.

In this video, Winnie talks about how far the students have come in their development and we see how their language skills and confidence have improved over the course of the year. There are also interviews with the parents of the children, talking about the importance of language learning.

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Submitted by Shimi paris on Mon, 12/25/2017 - 13:51

I love her enthusiasm and kindness. Iam sure she's one of the successful teachers.

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Submitted by Jason Jixun M… on Mon, 06/13/2016 - 11:49

Firstly, thanks for this learning and teaching guide. The good points of this teaching and learning recording for learners in their earlier years are: 1. The evidently videoing pathway of educational research has been applied into this practice throughout the year, which gave us many pieces of enlightenment about how to organize our own courses; 2. Interviewing is another important approach for the investigations of language skills. Through charting with children and their parents. We can check what kind of standards we set are good and have been taken by Children. We can also check the shortcomings, of which our children haven't gotten, in order to fulfill our own plans into practices. A little bit developing zone for this class : 'Young learner' is a generalized term, of which the individualist situations of students' ages, personalities, the habits of using language haven't been clarified in details. Yes, the interviewing can help us know some details. However, in my opinion, a earlier-year-edition questionnaire, such as Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales for cognition's development, (Introduction in Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford%E2%80%93Binet_Intelligence_Scales) is necessary. This questionnaire can be filled by parents' observations of their children and their cooperation with children themselves. And more, adding ' several operational and practical standards abstracted from the 'Sequential skill development in learning to talk' and its introductions (Introductions in Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_development), or others for carefully following, can also make this procedure more professional. All in all, depending on the practical situation, I need say: it is a good practice, but also has the developing zone for bettering

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