Teaching English to Young Learners: More Teacher Education and More Children’s Literature!

Abstract

In Janice Bland’s paper, the availability of focused pre-service and in-service teacher education, as well as teacher educators with the necessary expertise, is discussed. The role of children’s literature in teacher education is highlighted and the relevance of high-quality language input is foregrounded.

Keywords

• teaching english to young learners
• teacher education
• teacher educators
• creative teacher talk
• children´s literature
• quality input