THE YOUNG LEARNER

IV. THE YOUNG LEARNER

To teach to young learners was an amazing experience for us. Our students behaved in different ways as is expected from students aged 4 to 6 years. Though some of them were willing to participate in class and help the teacher with everything he or she needed to do, others were hoping the morning to finish and go home without doing anything but playing. There were some students able to express themselves; what they want, like, dislike or even hate, but there were others with problems to express their feelings. If they did not like something, they prefered to remain silence than say something afraid of being  ¨punished¨.

Sometimes when they had to work in pairs, they wanted to work with their best friend or to work in an specific table because it was their favorite color. something that caught our attention was that if from X table a student was alone, there was always more that one student that wanted to move to that table to be with him or her, and that is something that we can observe in kids; they love their friends, and they like to help them very time they are able to do it. Some Children like to share the toys or even food, but there are others that cry if someone touches their things. 

We had many creative students able to use their imagination in a way that it was out of our minds. There was a smart little girl  able to say even the mos difficult word to pronounce for her age, and if the teacher asked something from a week ago, she answered without doubting about her answer. 

If we compare the children we taught with the book Tachin English to Children, we can say that their behavior is similar to the kind of children that the book describes.