Keep very young learners engaged with games while effectively developing target language and skills!

ESL games and activities keep children actively engaged in their learning during online instruction. However, teachers must not merely entertain, but use games strategically to develop young learners’ target language. In this course, you’ll learn a series of digital and realia-based ESL games for teaching English online to preschoolers (ages 4-6) as well as the pedagogical theory behind their use.    

Learning Objectives
 

When you graduate, you’ll be able to:

• Describe the language skills that can be learned through the use of games and activities with very young learners in the virtual classroom

• Discuss the pedagogy and research that support the use of online games and activities with very young learners (ages 4-6)

• List the organizational steps and planning stages for online games and activities

• Compare and contrast online game and activities appropriate for private versus group lessons with very young learners

• Find, create, and present effective digital games and activities for very young learners in the online classroom

• Find, create, and present effective realia-based games and activities for very young learners in the online classroom

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Requirements to take this course:

 

• 18 years of age.

• An intermediate or higher level of English proficiency (B1 level, according to the CEFR, the Common European Framework Reference for Language).

• Teaching experience or a general TEFL/TESOL certificate (recommended).