Introduction to TVYL

Teach Very Young language Learners is a difficult task deal with teaching in very young learners in a new language being a new experience for them since they only have a language that is native to them. Teaching and learning are two sides of the same coin, but they are essentially different activities, although both take place in the public sphere of the classroom.

This book aims to help the reader to teach more effectively. They contain theories of great pedagogues and techniques that are useful in order to effectively teach a new language to young people. Many times it is a difficult task since age should have appropriate knowledge to get the attention of students so that they understand what they are studying as it is not easy to learn a new language like that from scratch, some children develop gradually other in leaps some children develop early, some late. Then there must be a stimulus and the teacher must motivate his students to continue learning a foreign language.

To teach foreign languages ​​to small children, they are between five and twelve years of age. A good age to acquire knowledge since children at that age are like sponges that absorb all knowledge easily.

Talking about teaching a foreign language to children is a challenge because they do not have knowledge about a new language or it is not the requirement to perform well but as before said they are the ones that are easiest to acquire knowledge easily and learning a foreign language will result in them exciting and interesting.

There are some pedagogues who with their theories have helped to teach a foreign language for example this Vygotsky, Piaget and Burner.

Vygotskian theory is about the central observation that development and learning take place in a social context.

Whereas for Piaget the child is an active learner alone and a world of objects, for Vygotsky the child is an active learner in a world full of other people. He said that with the help of adults, children can do and understand much more than they can on their own.

Burner talked about the scaffolding and routines, and for him; language is the most important tool for cognitive growth, and he has investigated how adults use language to mediate the world for children and help them to solve problems. And support to a child in carrying out an activity.

Then the book talk about how learn a second language according the age, also the influence of the first language on the second.

Some people have problems with this topic, because they translate in their mother tongue and then they say the things as they think is the correct way.

The book of teaching languages to young learners by Lynne Cameron was a very important and interesting tool when it came to knowing about the techniques that we should use when it comes to teaching a foreign language to young apprentices.

Since the techniques and methods are not the same, they are more rigorous because of the age the student has and it is also a very beneficial stage to learn a new language since at an early age it is very good to acquire new knowledge.

In the book you can see the steps to follow so that a student can grammatically learn a language because in the first levels of the new language do not focus on that aspect, but often it turns out to be a problem since it is a little difficult to learn how use all structures required to occupy them.