General English Course for Beginning Young Learners.

      Аннотация: In this work, the researcher introduces a designed curriculum that aims to serve as a general introductory course for the third grad students in public schools of Armenia who study English as an additional foreign language. It will give opportunities to Armenian public school students to learn English with innovative methods. The course aims to develop students’ listening and speaking skills as well as enhance their vocabulary. The current project is designed as a teacher manual with scope and sequence, samples of lesson plans, which includes all the necessary links of songs, rhythms, worksheets, and references to the story that could be implemented. The project also includes the assessment plan, which is both formative and alternative. Formative assessment is conducted in the form of quizzes that mainly aimed at checking students’ listening comprehension. Alternative type of assessment comprise in-class observations and portfolio check-up.

Ключевые слова: young learners, additional foreign language