Young Learners - Authors Profile

Teaching English to Elementary School Children

Carla Wilson has been teaching EFL for about ten years mostly in Japan but also in the UK. She currently teaches at David English House in Hiroshima where she is director of children's courses, and also at Hiroshima University Fuzoku Elementary School. Her professional interests are young learners, teacher training and the effects of yoga practice on learning. She is a qualified yoga teacher and holds occasional yoga events for children as well as a weekly yoga class for adults.

• Curriculum (2)
• English in Elementary Schools (5)
• Games and Activities (10)
• Teacher Development (2)
• The Four Skills (8)

• Tests in Class
• Ten ways to use an eggtimer in class
• Homework Checking (2)
• Homework Checking (1)
• A Quick Analysis of Lesson Balance
• A Success Story
• Games and PPP in the children's EFL classroom
• English for engaging with English speakers
• Using concentration cards in large classes
• Topic-based or pattern-based curriculum

• Four Skills or Two?
    - Jeana Schieffer
    - LW
    - David Borgeson
    - Suzi
    - Betsy Hahn
  
• Looking Back, Looking Forward
    - Travis Ruetenik
    - Emily Wilson
    - manijeh
  
• Introducing Foreign Languages into UK Primary Schools
    - Language expert
    - steve
    - mfl co ordinator
  
• Homework Checking (1)
    - Alan Miesch
  
• A Quick Analysis of Lesson Balance
    - Greg Crawford
    - Mari Nakamura
    - Margaret Otake
    - Jem
  
• Using concentration cards in large classes
    - Alan Miesch
  
• How important are full sentences when answering questions?
    - Ryan Hagglund
  
• A Plea for Peripheral English
    - Les Smith
    - Mary
    - sammie
  
• Bingo
    - online bingo