
Voices in Action: Teaching Oral English Through Play for very young learners and everyone
This course empowers teachers to create fun, engaging oral language lessons for young learners. Through games, stories, and interactive activities, teachers gain practical tools and confidence.
Description
This course is designed for teachers who want to develop effective and engaging oral language teaching strategies for very young learners, who don’t read yet or are learning to do it, and for young learners. The focus is on providing a fun, interactive, and stress-free learning environment where teachers will experience a range of activities that they can later adapt for different age groups. The course integrates theory and practice, ensuring that participants understand the principles behind the activities they implement in their own classrooms.
This five-day course provides teachers with practical methods to teach English or any other language at early stages, through storytelling, games, songs, role-playing, and movement-based activities. It follows a communicative and multisensory approach, emphasizing real-life interactions and playful engagement to build confidence in the learning of English. Foreign language teachers know it is not the same teaching non readers than older learne
Ƶing objectives
By the end of the course, teachers will:
✔ Understand the theoretical foundations of oral language acquisition.
✔ Ƶ a variety of interactive strategies to teach speaking skills without relying on reading or writing.
✔ Develop confidence in using songs, storytelling, games, and role-play in the classroom.
✔ Adapt activities for different age groups and learning styles.
✔ Create a supportive, low-pressure environment for natural language acquisition.
✔ Integrate movement, gestures, and realia to enhance comprehension and retention.
Methodology & assessment
✔ Total Physical Response (TPR): Engaging students through movement and commands.
✔ Multisensory Ƶing: Using visual, auditory, and kinesthetic activities.
✔ Play-Based Ƶing: Encouraging interaction through games, songs, and storytelling.
✔ Communicative Language Teaching (CLT): Promoting real-life communication over memorization.
✔ Experiential Ƶing: Teachers actively participate in activities before applying them in their classrooms.
✔ Content based learning.
✔ Ƶing to learn.
Materials, digital tools & other learning resources
At the end of the course, participants will be provided with the course-related material.
Certification details
Assistance certificate
Europass Mobility Certificate
Pricing, packages and other information
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Price:500Euro
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Course package content:
What is included in the price:
Presentation day
5 days of clases (25h)
Course materials
Certificate of attendance
Administration costs
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Additional information:Description of the services and activities included in the course package (such as accommodation, meals, transport) or available at extra cost.
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Cancellation & changes:
Contact us
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Additional information:The options and conditions for change and cancellation, and the policy in case of unforeseen circumstances (force majeure).
Additional information
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Language:English
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Target audience ISCED:Primary education (ISCED 1)Lower secondary education (ISCED 2)Upper secondary education (ISCED 3)
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Target audience type:TeacherStudent TeacherTeacher Educator
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Ƶing time:25 hours or more
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