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Conditions Programs should fulfil for Successful Language Learning
The growing interest in the area of Teaching English to Young Learners has 
led to the publication of methodology books and theoretical research as well as 
teaching programs. Many of these programs emphasize the importance of using 
authentic, experiential, motivating and cognitively appropriate language activities, 
yet the question remains: 
What makes a good instructional program for young learners? We argue that 
a good EFL program for young learners needs to fulfil several conditions in order for 
successful language learning to take place. 
Designing an EFL Program for Young Learners
Objectives
I will now refer to two sets of related objectives: 
1. Objectives in the realm of Linguistic Competence 
2. Objectives in the realm of the Affective Domain 
Since the initial foreign language learning experiences have a strong impact 

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on children's future learning, it is crucial that these experiences should be 
enjoyable, confidence building and successful for the learner. 
Linguistic Competence 
With regards to the objectives in the realm of the Linguistic Competence, it is 
our contention that since a child's ability to communicate orally in first language 
takes place prior to learning how to read and write, an effective EFL program for 
young learners, should also go through the natural stages of learning a language; 
namely from basic oral/aural competence development along with emergent literacy 
skills to reading and writing using those emergent literacy skills that he gained at 
the aural/oral stage. At the Reading and Writing Stage the learner will make the 
connection between the emergent Literacy skill that were gained at the Aural Oral 
Stage and the letters, words and sentences at the Reading and Writing Stage. 
Aural/Oral competencies will serve a firm basis upon which beginning reading and 
writing will be developed, Thus, the first stage in FL instruction for young learners 
should be developing lexical knowledge and oral communication skills along with 
oral/aural phonemic awareness and basic Emergent Literacy Skills through story 
books. 
Based on the above theoretical basis, following are the stages that should 
be reflected in the design of an EFL program for young learners: