The very Hungry Caterpillar: Story Reading as an Effective Strategy Toward Achieving Proficiency in Efl in very Young Learners
This article examines how the use of music, tangible objects, story-reading, hands-on activities, drama activities, and Readers Theater strategy can help very young learners to become proficient in English as a foreign language. The present study is based on an English lesson taking place in a kind...
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This article examines how the use of music, tangible objects, story-reading, hands-on activities, drama activities, and Readers Theater strategy can help very young learners to become proficient in English as a foreign language. The present study is based on an English lesson taking place in a kindergarten in Lower Austria. There were two target groups of three to six year old children, one consisting of 25 learners and one consisting of 24 learners. English as a second language was taught to them in a naturalistic way for the period of three years. The learners’ language skills and communicative competence in English were assessed through three different oral tests during the lesson. The results of the tests proved that the learners had already acquired a high level of proficiency in EFL as a result of the effective teaching strategies used in their English program and were capable of acquiring new vocabulary and meanings during the current English lesson.
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| spelling | doaj.art-b61584822f844f2f8ecf54b6406d5cf02022-12-22T04:29:05ZengThe Francis de Sales Scientific Society (TNFS.PL)Seminare1232-87662450-13282021-02-01414The very Hungry Caterpillar: Story Reading as an Effective Strategy Toward Achieving Proficiency in Efl in very Young LearnersEdita Hornackova Klapicova0Megan ReisterConstantine the Philosopher University in Nitra This article examines how the use of music, tangible objects, story-reading, hands-on activities, drama activities, and Readers Theater strategy can help very young learners to become proficient in English as a foreign language. The present study is based on an English lesson taking place in a kindergarten in Lower Austria. There were two target groups of three to six year old children, one consisting of 25 learners and one consisting of 24 learners. English as a second language was taught to them in a naturalistic way for the period of three years. The learners’ language skills and communicative competence in English were assessed through three different oral tests during the lesson. The results of the tests proved that the learners had already acquired a high level of proficiency in EFL as a result of the effective teaching strategies used in their English program and were capable of acquiring new vocabulary and meanings during the current English lesson. https://ojs.seminare.pl/index.php/seminare/article/view/570English as a foreign languagevery young learnerseffective teaching strategieshands-on activitiesstory readingReaders Theater |
| spellingShingle | Edita Hornackova Klapicova Megan Reister The very Hungry Caterpillar: Story Reading as an Effective Strategy Toward Achieving Proficiency in Efl in very Young Learners Seminare English as a foreign language very young learners effective teaching strategies hands-on activities story reading Readers Theater |
| title | The very Hungry Caterpillar: Story Reading as an Effective Strategy Toward Achieving Proficiency in Efl in very Young Learners |
| title_full | The very Hungry Caterpillar: Story Reading as an Effective Strategy Toward Achieving Proficiency in Efl in very Young Learners |
| title_fullStr | The very Hungry Caterpillar: Story Reading as an Effective Strategy Toward Achieving Proficiency in Efl in very Young Learners |
| title_full_unstemmed | The very Hungry Caterpillar: Story Reading as an Effective Strategy Toward Achieving Proficiency in Efl in very Young Learners |
| title_short | The very Hungry Caterpillar: Story Reading as an Effective Strategy Toward Achieving Proficiency in Efl in very Young Learners |
| title_sort | very hungry caterpillar story reading as an effective strategy toward achieving proficiency in efl in very young learners |
| topic | English as a foreign language very young learners effective teaching strategies hands-on activities story reading Readers Theater |
| url | https://ojs.seminare.pl/index.php/seminare/article/view/570 |
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