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learners and to maximize learning process, we should define the young learners for
this course. The following grouping reflects the EFL teaching environment and the

learners of English in the primary education in Turkey.

E. Characteristics:

Very Young Learners Young Learners Older/ Late Young
Learners

Age: 3-6 years old Age: 7-9 years old Age: 10-12 years old

Grade: Pre-school Grade: 1st – 3rd grade Grade: 4th- 6th grade
Education

Language Focus/ Skills Language Focus/ Skills Language Focus/ Skills
Used: Used: Used:

Listening & Speaking Listening & Speaking Listening/Speaking/Readin

Vocabulary Items Vocabulary Items g/Writing
(concrete & familiar (concrete & familiar and Vocabulary Items (concrete

objects) new objects) & abstract)
No Grammar Teaching or New in Reading and Grammar (inductive)

metalanguage (can‘t Writing (word to

analyze language but sentence level)
may be exposed to No Grammar Teaching

chunks through songs, or metalanguage
classroom language) (chunks through songs

No reading & writing and classroom
(may recognize letters or language)

short words)

Characteristics: Characteristics: Characteristics:
*Low concentration span *Low concentration *Longer attention span but

but easily excited span: Wide variety of still children

*High motivation; active activities needed *Taking learning seriously
involvement *Short memory: *World knowledge

*Love talking but frequent revision is *More cooperation in
problems in sharing needed groups and in pairs

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