Research and Practice in Teaching Second Language Skills to Young Learners

Teaching a second/foreign language to young learners requires a special kind of professionalism, and necessitates various types of knowledge, skills, and abilities. Research and Practice in Teaching Second Language Skills to Young Learners aims to familiarize teachers and future teachers with young learners and tools to teach them. With a special focus on language skills, chapters provide theoretical information, authentic data as well as practical pedagogical suggestions to help children in
their second language development.

Chapter 1 (by Zeynep Çamlıbel-Acar) offers general background information on teaching languages and language skills to young learners. Chapter 2 (by Derin Atay and Erhan Gülşen) explores the use of digital tools during pre-listening. Chapter 3 (by Eurydice Bouchereau Bauer, Cori Salmerón and Lydia Carnesale) examines peer and teacher mediation during literacy instruction. Chapter 4 (by Evrim Eveyik-Aydın) presents the findings of a case study on reading and writing strategies. Chapter 5 (by Georgia Earnest Garcia and Chaehyun Lee) demonstrates cases of home-language use and written translanguaging. Chapter 6 (by Kamile Hamiloğlu) documents speaking as a productive skill in young learners’ language acquisition journey. Chapter 7 (by Tuba Kıvanç-Contuk and Belma Haznedar) explores the relationship between writing activities, graded readers and vocabulary learning. Chapter 8 (by Gökçe Kurt and Şükriye Senger) illustrates students’ and teachers’ perceptions of Automated Writing Evaluation. Chapter 9 (by Joanna Rokita-Jaśkow) suggests ways of developing speaking skills in young and very young learners. Chapter 10 (by Zeynep Çamlıbel-Acar) presents various skills-related activities and exercises for teachers.