Teaching Young Learners to Think: ELT-activities for Young Learners Aged 6-12 (Photocopiable Resource Series) by Herbert Puchta

by Herbert Puchta

Teaching Young Learners to Think offers 80 activities with photocopiable worksheets and easy-to-follow teacher's notes. Herbert Puchta, author of a wide range of innovative teaching materials, and Marion Williams, well-known for her book Psychology for Language Teachers, have developed specifically designed tasks that develop children's foreign language competence while promoting the basic thinking skills they will need as they grow older. Teachers will enjoy using the motivating tasks that have been carefully devised to match the language level of EFL learners. Students will enjoy the fun of the thinking challenges these activities offer.

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First published January 31, 2012

About the author

Herbert Puchta has a Ph.D. in ELT Pedagogy from the University of Graz, Austria, and is currently Professor of English at the Teacher Training University (Pädagogische Academy) in Graz. He has been a plenary speaker at a number of international conferences, and has conducted workshops and given seminars in Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Chile, Croatia, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain, Poland, Portugal, Paraguay, and Uruguay. He has also worked as a speaker for the British Council and has contributed to several British Council Specialist Seminars.

Herbert is a Master Practitioner in Neuro Linguistic Programming. For almost two decades, he has carried out research into the practical application of findings from cognitive psychology to the teaching of English as a foreign language. Herbert has co-authored numerous course books for the teaching of English as a foreign language, as well as articles and resource books.

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[Patricia Gómez Tarquini · Rating 5 out of 5]

A must have.