Supplementary Materials for a 3rd-Grade English as a Foreign Language Textbook in Public Schools of Armenia

Abstract

Language teaching through songs, games and crafts is practiced worldwide and continues to gain wider application .Teaching through songs, games and crafts have been chosen as a primary methodology for this course due to the perceived need in this area in English as a foreign language education in Armenian schools. The current paper presents a course design which is a supplementary material for the third graders textbook “English ABC”. This textbook is used by some of the Armenian public schools. The course aims to develop the students’ both productive and receptive skills. The main purpose of this work is to increase the motivation of the students, develop their creativity and engage them in the learning process. The project includes a course book with an outline of goals and objectives, learning and assessment plan, pre- and post-test materials, grading rubrics, pictures, as well as twenty lesson plans with related materials. The project also includes recommendations based on the piloting expreience. The course was piloted with beginner level students whose age was from seven to eight years old. This course was intended for ten-weeks. Two groups participated in this study: treatment and control groups. At the beginning of the course the students took pre-test and after the treatment the students took a posttest. The tests were analyzed by the program SPSS. Based on the researchers experience this Supplementary materials made the lessons more interesting, engaging and fun. They can be implemented by EFL teachers as valuable resources.