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When young children are in language classroom, maybe we think they don’t understand anything, but we are wrong. They have a very useful ability allowing them to guess the meaning of what we want to say without understanding all the words separately. How? Teachers have intonation, gesture, facial expressions…and this is how they start to understand the language. This happens even if you have learned a language for many years, I am saying this out of my experience.
The most important part of learning a language is to talk. Does not matter if you do not know some words or how to say a sentence correctly. We have to try and if we fail, do not worry, we are learning of our mistakes. Mistakes are very important while we are learning, and we have to teach this to our students. But, seriously, students of a new language that may have been learnt a lot of grammar, vocabulary…if you do not put it into practice it is useless. I knew more or less English grammar, vocabulary… and when I arrive to my host family in London, as I have been an au pair, I couldn’t say a single word.
There are two different types of learning: direct and indirect. Direct learning can be a traditional class of history, which sounds really boring. For indirect learning, guessing is actually a very powerful way of learning phrases and structures. Why? Because the mind is engaged with the task and is not focusing on the language.
As I explained in exercise 3, games have an important role within education. Children do not need too much to have fun and play. But games are not the only way in which individual personalities surface in the language classroom. There are, also, the role of imagination. This role promotes creativity and imagination, obliges us to call the shots, responsibility, teamwork…
I really liked to learn by the imaginative rol. For example, if students need to practice their conversational skills, in pairs, they can imagine that one of them wants to buy a toy and the other is the seller. Then they have to speak all in English and they will improve a lot.
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Skills
When young children are in a language classroom, maybe we think that they don’t understand anything, but we are wrong. They have a very useful ability allowing them to guess the meaning of what we want to say without understanding all the words separately. How? Teachers use intonation, gesture, facial expressions…and this is how they start to understand the language. This happens even if you have learned a language for many years, as I know from experience.The most important part of learning a language is to talk. It does not matter if you do not know some words or how to say a sentence correctly. We have to try and if we fail, not to worry since we learn from our mistakes. Mistakes are very important while we are learning, and we have to teach this to our students. But, seriously, students of a new language who may have learnt a lot of grammar, vocabulary … if you do not put it into practice it is useless. I knew, more or less, English grammar, vocabulary … and when I arrived, as au pair, to my host family in London I couldn’t say a single word.
There are two different types of learning: direct and indirect. Direct learning can be a traditional class of history, which sounds really boring. For indirect learning, guessing is actually a very powerful way of learning phrases and structures. Why? Because the mind is engaged with the task and is not focusing on the language.
As I explained in exercise 3, games have an important role within education. Children do not need too much to have fun and play. But games are not the only way in which individual personalities surface in the language classroom. There is, also, the role of imagination. This role promotes creativity and imagination, obliges us to call the shots, responsibility, teamwork…
I really liked to learn by the imaginative role. For example, if students need to practice their conversation, in pairs, they can imagine that one of them wants to buy a toy and the other wants to sell it. Then they have to speak all in English and they will improve a lot.
Very well written and fascinating piece!
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Skills
When young children are in language classroom, maybe we think they don’t understand anything, but we are wrong. They have a very useful ability allowing them to guess the meaning of what we want to say without understanding all the words separately. How? Teachers have intonation, gesture, facial expressions…and this is how they start to understand the language. This happens even if you have learned a language for many years, I am saying this out of my experience.The most important part of learning a language is to talk. It does not matter if you do not know some words or how to say a sentence correctly. We have to try and if we fail, do not worry, we are learning from our mistakes. Mistakes are very important while we are learning, and we have to teach this to our students. But, seriously, students of a new language that may have been taught a lot of grammar, vocabulary…(but) if you do not put it into practice it is useless. I knew some English grammar and vocabulary… and when I arrived in London to stay with my host family, (I was going to be an au pair), I couldn’t say a single word.
There are two different types of learning: direct and indirect. Direct learning can be a traditional class of history, which sounds really boring. For indirect learning, guessing is actually a very powerful way of learning phrases and structures. Why? Because the mind is engaged with the task and is not focusing on the language.
As I explained in exercise 3, games have an important role within education. Children do not need too much to have fun and play. But games are not the only way in which individual personalities surface in the language classroom. There is also the role of imagination. This
I really liked to learn by the imaginative method. For example, if students need to practice their conversational skills, in pairs, they can imagine that one of them wants to buy a toy and the other is the seller. Then they have to speak all in English and they will improve a lot.
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