Annotated Bibliography on Teaching English to Young Learners and Intercultural Approach to Language Teaching

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1ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Topic 1: Teaching young learners
a. Copland, Fiona, Sue Garton, and Anne Burns. "Challenges in teaching English to
young learners: Global perspectives and local realities." Tesol Quarterly 48.4 (2014):
738-762.
Studying the recent international journals and researches, it is comprehensible that
with the rising of English language as a universal language, teachers from around the world
are in difficulties in terms of teaching English as a foreign language to the young learners.
The aim of this research is to evaluate the challenges that the teachers, both global and local,
have to face while teaching English to young learners. In order to perform the research,
Copland, Garton and Burnes collected data in a mixed method approach, which included
conducting a survey with 4459 teachers from different countries, observing and interviewing
the teachers of five primary schools located in five countries, and case studies. The research
resulted in finding multiple challenges in different aspects of teaching that the worldwide
teachers are facing. This findings of this research includes a number of challenges that were
not previously documented, and hence of extreme importance to the new researchers of this
field. The study suggests that the focus should be on improving the condition of teachers and
supporting them to overcome the challenges. The only limitation of the study is that it only
researches the problems of the teachers of young learners. However, the findings of this
research on the global context of teaching have the potential to support the base of my
research.
b. Copland, Fiona, and Sue Garton. "Key themes and future directions in teaching
English to young learners: Introduction to the special issue." ELT journal 68.3 (2014):
223-230.