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Learner training is about developing learners' awareness of how they learn. It aims to develop learners' learning strategies with the intention of making them more effective and independent.

Tests for people of any age can seem a threat or, at the very least, an obstacle that needs to be overcome. Testing children is even more fraught with sensitivities.

When I first started teaching, the schools I worked in had ‘a’ computer that a few classes shared. Here are a few tips for activities using computers with learners.

This free training module provides an overview of the issues of assessing English as a foreign language for young learners.

Are you using the correct terms for your young learners ?
A child is defined as anyone who has not reached their 18th birthday (UNCRC 1989). Within this age range children go through different life-stages as they pass from pre-school, to primary school and to secondary school.

This article explores some very useful classroom management strategies for teaching young learners, which requires special knowledge of child development and specific skills to maintain a calm and controlled learning environment. 

This first article will give an introduction to some of the issues surrounding video with young learners. It will discuss the benefits but also the potential drawbacks of using video, the different roles video can take and then present criteria for selecting videos. 

This second article concentrates on classroom activities. The way the video is used and the materials prepared for use with the video will depend on the role the video is to take. 

It can be very daunting going into a class of 20 or 30 five-year-olds when you have little teaching experience.