DESCRIBING LEARNERS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES

  Світлана Добровольська (Дубляни, Україна) |    Download article

The age of our students is a major factor in our decisions about how and what to teach. People of different ages have different needs,competences and cognitive skills; we might expect children of primary age to acquire much of a foreign language through play, for example, whereas for adults we can reasonably expect a greater use of abstract thought.