The course prepares students to teach English to pre-primary pupils who learn English as a second or foreign language (ESL/EFL), emphasising the practice of various language activities: games, songs, nursery rhymes, role plays, story-telling and worksheets, etc. In addition, students learn to design, adopt and adapt different teaching materials and teaching aids when planning an English lesson for pre-primary ESL/EFL pupils. Furthermore, students will have a better understanding of various language teaching approaches and their underlying theories. The course also includes important topics such as classroom English, lesson planning and teaching pronunciation.

Students that successfully complete this course will have shown the ability to: adopt and adapt learning activities for very young learners in terms of language abilities and classroom contexts; plan and execute very young ESL/EFL learner lesson plans; engage in critical reflection through in-depth analysis of their own and peers' teaching of very young language learners; and articulate a philosophy of teaching very young ESL/EFL language learners.