1. Younger and older learners

2. Younger and older learners
Young children learn language better?
Foreign language learning in school should start early?
Children and adults learn languages the same way?
Adults have a longer concentration span?
It’s easier to motivate children?

3. Younger and older learners
Teaching children: pictures, stories, games
Teaching adolescents: students preferences
Teaching adults: a different relationship

4. Relationship between teacher and adult students
Authority – subjects to authority
Assessor – assessed
Transmitter – receivers
Motivator – people to be motivated
Activator – people to be motivated
Counsellor – clients
Seller of services – buyers of services
Resource – users

5. Younger and older learners
References:
Penny Ur, A Course in Language Teaching, Practice and Theory, CUP