Aimed at student teachers‎,‎ educators and practitioners‎,‎ Teaching English Language to Young Learners outlines and explains the crucial issues‎,‎ themes and scenarios relating to this area of teaching‎.‎ Each chapter by a leading international scholar offers a thorough introduction to a central theme of English as a foreign language ‎(‎EFL‎)‎ with preteens‎,‎ with clear presentation of the theoretical background and detailed references for further reading‎,‎ providing access to the most recent scholarship‎.‎ Exploring the essential issues critically and in‎-depth‎,‎ including the disadvantages as well as advantages of Teaching English as a Foreign Language ‎(‎TEFL‎)‎ with young learners‎,‎ topics include‎:‎ ‎- task‎-based learning in the primary school‎;‎ ‎- storytelling‎;‎ ‎- drama‎;‎ ‎- technology‎;‎ ‎- vocabulary development‎;‎ ‎- intercultural understanding‎;‎ ‎- Content and Language Integrated Learning ‎(‎CLIL‎)‎ scenarios‎;‎ ‎- assessment‎.‎ Innovative and rapidly emerging topics are covered‎,‎ such as immersion teaching‎,‎ picturebooks in the EFL classroom and English with pre‎-primary children‎.‎