This practical webinar explores how puppets can transform English language learning in young learner classrooms by enhancing participation, motivation, and emotional connection. Based on real classroom experience, the session demonstrates how puppets can act as mediators between children and language—creating a bridge where curiosity and communication meet.
Through stories of classroom characters such as Bingo, Pompom, and Jimbo, participants will discover how puppets can support classroom management, reinforce routines, and serve as tools for formative assessment. Each puppet plays a distinct pedagogical role—from promoting active listening to encouraging empathy, peer awareness, and self-reflection.
The presenter will share practical, classroom-tested strategies for using puppets to build engagement and authentic communication in English lessons. Participants will also explore the reflective dimension of puppet use—not only as teaching aids, but as emotional partners that give every learner a voice and make invisible learning visible. By the end of the session, attendees will gain practical ideas to adapt puppets for different age groups and teaching contexts, and to see them not as toys, but as bridges connecting language, emotion, and imagination.
