1. Young learners and technology: ways to integrate culture and parents
Amanda Chiarelo Boldarine
Associação Cultura Inglesa São Paulo

2. My students
23 students
8-9 years old

3. How can I maximize my students’ language learnning experience?
Question
How can I maximize my students’ language learnning experience?

4. Optimal Conditions Learning … …is active and experimental …is natural
…is contextualized and part of an real event
…is interesting and enjoyable
…is relevant
…is social
…belongs to the child
…has a purpose to the child
…builds on things the child knows
…makes sense to the child
…is active and experimental
…is memorable
…allows for personal, divergent responses
…takes account of multiple intelligences
The learning atmosphere is relaxed and warm
There is a sense of achievement
The child is challenged appropriately
Read (2003)

5. Culture Shin and Crandal (2014)
‘As the world gets smaller and more interconnected through the Internet and international travel, children have the opportunity to become global citizens. Through learning another language, children can gain an appreciation for other languages and cultures. The experience can also make them more aware and reflective of their own language and culture.’
Shin and Crandal (2014)

6. Parental Involvement
‘(...) encouraging parental involvement, enabling parents to become partners in learning so they can maximize their child’s language learning opportunities through self-help, encouragement and mutual understanding between themselves, their child and the school.’
Brewster, Ellis and Girard (2012)

7. Technology
Vocaroo
Padlet

8. Vocaroo Benefits: User-friendly tool (Stannard 2012) Limitations:
Internet-dependent

9. Vocaroo

10. Padlet Benefits: Fosters collaboration and sharing (Stannard 2015)
Limitations:
Internet -dependent
Limited space

11. Padlet

12. Parents
“I’d like to say that I’m really pleased with my daughter’s development. Congratulations on what you have achieved with the group, Fernanda has learned a lot and we know that it is due to your dedication and her eagerness to learn. Thank you!”

13. Part 2 Maximazing parental involvement
Perception of learning and sense of achievement

14. Technology and Young Learners
‘Probably the most important point to make is that any use of technology needs to be integrated into your lessons, and it needs to support your language aims. There is clearly no point in using technology for technology’s sake.’
(Hockly, 2015)

15. References
Brewster, J, Ellis & Girard, D The Primary English Teacher’s Guide. Edinburgh: Penguin English Guides.
Hockly, N. 2015, Five things you always wanted to ask about young learners and technology (but were too afraid to ask). English Teaching Professional. (97) March.
Read, C Is Younger better? English Teaching Professional. (28) July
Shin, J & Crandall, J Teaching Young Learners English – From Theory to Practice. Boston: National Geographic Learning.
Stannard, R Webwatcher. English Teaching Professional. (97) March.
Stannard, R Webwatcher. English Teaching Professional. (82) September.

16. Thank you!