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1. Questions: a) identify the 5 major factors of teaching the three different age groups. b) briefly describe the dos and don'ts in teaching each group. Five Major Factors of Teaching | Age Group | | Children | Teenager | Adult | Intellectual Development | According to Piaget (1972) children (up to the age of about 11) are still in an intellectual stage which is called “concrete operation”.Rules in abstract term should be avoided.Don’t explain grammar using terms like “present progressive”.Patterns need more repetition | Some sophisticated intellectual processing is increasingly possible around the age of 12. Using logical thinking therefore if a learner is attending to self, to appearance, being accepted, sexual thoughts, the intellectual task may suffer | More able to handle abstract rules and concepts. | Attention Span | Children are focused on the here and now.Needs a variety of activities.Teacher needs to be animated, lively, and enthusiastic about the subject matter.A sense of humor will a go a long way in keeping children laughing and learning. | Lengthening as a result of intellectual maturation, but once again with many diversion present in a teenagers’ life, those potential attention span can easily be shortened | Have longer attention span for material that may not be intrinsically interesting to them | Sensory input | Pepper your lesson with physical activity, such as play games, TPR.Sensory aids help children to internalize conceptsFacial features, gestures and body language will help children to remember | Varieties of sensory input are still important but again, increasing capacities for abstraction lessen the essential nature of appealing all five senses | It is not always be as varied with adults, but one of the secrets of lively adult classes is their appeal to multiple senses | Affective factors | Children are so sensitive and their ego are still being shaped. It means there are a lot of potential barriers to learn the