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    For many English Teachers, it turns out to be a challenge Teaching Kids. In fact, most of the English Teachers tend to avoid this task, since they claim that dealing with human beings in their first stages is not an easy job. On the contrary, for most Techaers,  children are synonym of stress, pounds of patience, tiredness, headaches and more. However, what most of those Teachers do not know is how rewarding Teaching Kids could be, if we are able to get acquainted with the several approaches we can use for the teaching of English within the first stages of life. Moreover, when we teach kids, we usually develop strong ties with them, since they will always think of the Teacher as their second mother or father, as another person that contributes to their academic and personal growth. Kids are very sensitive, and they’re always willing to learn something new in any way, through games, simulations, role-plays, etc.
    Experts in ELT and Neurolinguistics believe than when a child is introduced to a second/foreing language at an early age, the chances of becoming more proficient are higher. They base this statement on the Critical Period Hypothesis which claims that, any child that starts learning a new language before puberty (before the age of 13) will have more chances of becoming proficient. According to the Hypothesis, the human brain, especially the LAD (Language Adquisition Device) is in development and highly activated during this stage of life, so chances are that a child will learn a second language just as his/her mother tongue, in other words, with the same level of proficiency.
    However, it is also known that pre teens and boys and girls who are already teenagers are also capable of learning a second/foreing language as well as young children might do. Besides, the theory does not affirm that a language cannot be learnt at a later age. The experience and the enviroment in which a language is learnt play a determinant role in language acquisition, regardless how young the learner might be.
    Whatever the age, when children learn a second language, the develop skills which will help them to create broaden opportunities in their future. They also acquire the lifelong ability to communicate with others in any circumstances and learn about other cultures, which help them developing a better outlook of life.
What stops children from learning
Feeling uncomfortable, distracted or under pressure.
Feeling confused by abstract concepts of grammar rules and their application which they cannot easily understand.
Activities which require them to focus attention for a long time.
Boredom.
Being over-corrected.
How children learn languages
Children learn by:
Having more opportunities to be exposed to the second language.
Making associations between words, languages, or sentence patterns and putting things into clear, relatable contexts.
Using all their senses and getting fully involved; by observing and copying, doing things, watching and listening.
Exploring, experimenting, making mistakes and checking their understanding.
Repetition and feeling a sense of confidence when they have established routines.
Being motivated, particularly when their peers are also speaking/learning other languages.
    Teaching kids is a really worthwhile task, since we are able to interact with human beings in their early stage, and having human beings learning at such moment, enables Teachers to develop more meaningful and funny activities that will make them acquire the tagert lagnage in an easy and funny way. We even become determinant in the children’s growth, and the feeling of pride feeds our spirits as teachers as well as our horizons.
    Firstly, I’d like to thank the Teacher for assigning me the presentation on “The Use of the Voice”. I was able to get acquainted with the hints Teachers as well as singers should follow in order to preserve the VOICE, the most important instrument Teachers posses for the development of their classes. I can say that i feel pleased with the results of my presentation, since I was able to provide my classmates with the most important information regarding the use of the voice. I carried out a thorough research so as to get every single detail about VOICE, due to the importance of this instrument within the teaching-learning process. Moreover, I could prepare a handout with a brief summary of the most important aspects to consider for the taking care of the voice that Teachers should bear in mind. I was also able to realize the kind of problem I used to have with the pitches and tone  of my voice but now that I got the whole information about the use and abuse of the Voice, I’ve improved my performance. In other words, YOU DON’T NEED TO YELL!!! PROJECTION IS THE KEY.
I truly hope you’ll enjoy the movie I created in a funny way to show my standpoint regarding ELT, also i added my general opinion about this field below the link. Just click on it and you’ll have total acces to the movie.
For more than a century, the ELT field has been trying to find the best teaching method that comprises the best attitudes, theories, methods and techniques (see McArthur, 1983, p.p 96) and after a longer or shorter period of time what seems to be “the best approach”is succeeded by a new perfect method, as in the case of the Audiolingual Method which was later substituted by the Communicative Approach. But what reveals more importance is to clarify that we cannot use one approach to overlap another. Most of the times, the best English Teaching Method arises as a result of combining features of different approaches. Moreover, what is fundamental for the ELT field is that, Teachers must be aware of the different views on the nature and use of language as well as the rationale behind teaching methodology, so that, they do not only translate theory into practice but they can also contribute to the development of the ELT profession.
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