How to teach English?
Teaching English is not an easy task to carry out, it requires to put many skills into practice; however, there is a theory that I consider as the guide that has to be followed when teaching English to young learners; it is the Experiental Learning Cycle proposed by David Kolb.
This cycle is compossed by four stages in which students face a different experience at every one of them:
In the following lines you will read a brief explanation of every stage:
1.- Concrete Experience: At this stage the teacher has to explore the previous knowledge of the students, so this is going to be as a base to start teaching and learning a new content.
2.- Reflective Observation: Teachers have to guide their students to the vocabulary and grammar that they need to learn for them to identify it.
3: Abstract conceptualization: Once the student has identified the grammar points, he/she has to learn how to use and to memorize the new structures or words.
4.- Active Experimentation: Students put what they learned into practice so they use the language to share information and this becomes a new "Concrete Experience" stage.