ESL Kids / Young learners research articles
Research papers on teaching children in the ESL classroom
There is a surprisingly large amount of articles on the web related to teaching ESL to young learners. Below is a growing list of links to some interesting ESL kids articles. If you know of an appropriate article on the web, or have written one yourself, please let us know and we’ll add it to the list.
- 6 different types of ESL learners and how to teach them
 ESL KidStuff.
- 12 Tips for Teachers of Children
 Uchida, Helene Jarmol.
- A Child’s First Steps in Language Learning
 McGlothlin, J. Doug.
- An Account of a Pilot Key Pal Project for Korean Children
 Choi, Jaehee.
- Age Effects in Second Language Acquisition: Overview
 Wiwikyulihaningsih.
- Acquiring Vocabulary Through Story-Songs
 L. Medina, Suzanne.
- Children’s Writing in ESL
 Hudelson, Sarah.
- Considerations in Teaching Culturally Diverse Children
 Coballes-Vega, Carmen.
- Creative ESL Reading Comprehension Activities Your Students Will Love
 Chou, Elena.
- Creative Ways to Get Your ESL Students Talking with Pictures
 Tankard, Fiona.
- Dealing with Bad Behavior in an ESL Kids classroom
 ESL KidStuff.
- Effective Instruction for Language Minority Children with Mild Disabilities (PDF)
 Ruiz, Nadine T.
- Fostering Second Language Development in Young Children
 Eric Digest.
- Helping Children Learn to Think in English Through Reading Storybooks
 Neyman, Patricia F.
- How To Be An Entertaining ESL Teacher
 Cramer, David.
- How to start teaching kids English at home
 Blackmore, Jo.
- How to TPR Abstractions
 Silvers, Stephen M.
- How young children learn English as another language
 Dunn, Opal.
- Kids and stroies
 Clarke, Sue.
- Listening Exercises to Sharpen Your Students’ Ears
 Chou, Elena.
- Listening for young learners
 Arnold, Wendy.
- Maintaining concentration with young learners
 Bertrand, Jo.
- Metaphoric intelligence and foreign language learning
 Littlemore, Jeannette.
- Motivating Young ESL Learners: Part Two: More Ideas for Keeping Things Moving
 Spelleri, Maria.
- Music in the English Classroom
 Uchida, Helene Jarmol.
- Myths and Misconceptions about Second Language Learning: What every teacher needs to unlearn
 McLaughlin, Barry.
- Programs for Teaching English Language Learners
 Rennie, Jeanne.
- Reading and Young Learners
 Arnold, Wendy and Malcolm, Fiona.
- Receptive skills with young learners
 Gabrielatos, Costas.
- Research for TPR Storytelling
 Asher, James.
- Secondary Newcomer Programs: Helping Recent Immigrants Prepare for School Success
 Short, Deborah, J.
- Setting up in the young learner classroom
 Steele, Claire.
- Teaching Creative Writing
 Essex, Christopher.
- Teaching Japanese-English Bilingual Children to Read English at Home
 Smith, Craig.
- Teaching Strategies That Successfully Motivated My Students To Reach The Next Level
 Woodson, Kelliel
- The Effect of Music on Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition
 L. Medina, Suzanne.
- The Most Effective ESL Teaching Strategy You’re Not Using: Absurdly Short Time Limits
 Tankard, Fiona.
- The role of homework
 Darn, Steve.
- Total physical response – TPR
 Frost, Richard.
- Using Music to Enhance Second Language Acquisition: From Theory to Practice
 L. Medina, Suzanne.
- We Can Talk: Cooperative Learning in the Elementary ESL Classroom
 Kagan, Spencer.
- What is Immersion?
 Bostwick, Mike.
- Why, How, and When Should My Child Learn a Second Language? (PDF)
 Marcos, Kathleen.
- Young learner testing
 Taylor, Lynda.
- Young Learner’s Writing Workshop
 Beare, Kenneth.
If you know of an online article that is directly related to teaching ESL to kids, please let us know here and we’ll add it to the list.

