If you are a EFL teacher or educator working with preteens, this exploration of the crucial issues in your profession is indispensable reading. Each chapter is written by a leading international expert, covering a key theme or challenge, from vocabulary development to technology and intercultural understanding to CLIL scenarios.

This expanded new edition now includes chapters on out-of-school English, inclusive practices, project learning for creative self-expression, teaching practice, global issues, and classroom management. Newly written chapters also bring its coverage of developing oracy, critical intercultural perspectives, assessment and developing principled materials fully up to date. This suite of new and updated material is capped by an extended glossary that emphasises terms used in international dialogues on teaching languages to young learners, from areas such as applied linguistics, teaching methodology, education studies, literary studies and cultural studies.

Whatever the context of your EFL work or studies, Teaching English to Young Learners offers positive steps and practical solutions, setting out the theoretical background, current scholarship and further reading that will ultimately elevate your professional practice.