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Activities simulating real-life experience in the EFL classroom for very young learners may strongly contribute to the acquisition of language skills on multiple levels. This effective teaching method provides learners with the opportunity to become immersed in a natural speaking environment and allows them to acquire and practice the following language forms and skills: pronunciation and other phonological features, vocabulary and meaning, grammar and sentence structure, style, listening and speaking skills, communicative and social skills, sociolinguistic competence, discourse competence, and strategic competence. The aim of the present paper is to offer some tips for teaching EFL through real-life experience, which may lead to achieving bilinguality and proficiency in English as a foreign language in very young learners.

Keywords: bilinguality, communicative approach, EFL, natural approach, very young learners;

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