a vision for teaching early adolescent children martin smith

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 A Vision for Teachin g Early Ad olescent Ch ildren Martin Smith The greatest necessity in teaching English to early adolescent children is to catch their attention; and the only way this can be done is to have a theme.  A theme is a n all-enco mpassing a nd known subject arou nd which the serie s of lesson s revolves. I say, ‘series of lessons’ because it is axiomatic that all courses should have defined beginnings and ends : administrators need to realize that English is not sold by the yard   as if it were a fabric for making something  but rather as individual pedagogic artefacts, like Persian carpets. The reason for this is that if the children’s interest is caught, the teacher gradually acquires increasing freedom of movement; as intelligent children aged 10-12 can quickly progress

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