Program Outline

Starship English makes learning enjoyable. The program uses a careful balance of current best practices in teaching with well-known and well-understood principles of language learning.

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The teaching is based on the communicative approach. The language is functional, enabling students to use the language appropriately. Students focus on the four skills of reading, listening, writing, and speaking, both independently and in combination. The language is carefully and progressively introduced, in keeping with current research findings on how children learn English as a second language. Language taught in one lesson is reinforced in subsequent units and levels. Grammar and vocabulary are taught methodically, but without the introduction of the grammatical terms that often confuse young learners.