I. THE YOUNG LEARNER        

• What’s to be a young language learner?

When we start learning a new language, many of us believe that this will be easy. Over time in our own experience, we could see that the process of learning a new language is not an easy task. After being used to speaking in Spanish, students are accustomed to it; then, we switch the way that we speak into English.

Therefore, we commit spelling-to-spelling or spelling-to-sound errors, and we begin facing a lot of troubles because the mother tongue influences the acquisition of a new language. Learn the mother-tongue-language is innate in every person because we acquire language through subconscious process during our childhood and we acquire grammatical rules unconsciously. In order to acquire a new language, the learner needs natural communication with people who are in this process only by practicing.

A person who has memorized the rules of the language may be able to succeed on a standardized test of English language, but they may not be able to speak correctly. Also, English can’t be only learn by memorizing grammatical rules, but also by writing, speaking, listening, and reading, which are the four macro-skills that students can develop in the English learning process.

Now, talking about teaching children, we can say that it is not an easy task to do because for making this work possible, we as teachers, have to know that we can use a lot of techniques according to children needs.

Besides that, the learning process must be very organized, especially with kids because they learn a lot of new things every single day and the good or bad knowledge they acquire depends on us, so it determine how good or how bad is the education they received.

Also, it is so important to mention that a teacher has to be prepared for whatever it comes during a class. That is why we as teachers have to be creative at the moment of teaching, and also we have to be as more comprehensible as possible because we have to remember that children need more attention at the moment of learning since they are consider as young learners, what means that their ability to learn is a little bit different from others.