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English Essay Being a lingua franca, English is still becoming more popular with every single day, and one of the representations of ever-growing popularity of English might be seen in the existence of myriads of various English training centers around the world. Although such centers include variety of English establishments differing on the basis of a learning purpose, methodology, or other factors, in this essay we only consider those which deal with the kids of preschool age (2-6 years old). Nowadays, the establishments which target at teaching English to preschoolers include English training schools for kids and bilingual kindergartens. The teaching methods in these establishments have much in common; however, they differ greatly from what is seen in English classrooms for teenagers or adult students. The root of the distinctions, not surprisingly, comes from the age of the students. First of all, while teaching teenagers or adults, generally speaking, it is expected that a teacher will see his/her goal in encouraging students to produce an adequate English output as much as possible. But since the students of 2-3 years old may not even be good at pronouncing full sentences in their own mother tongue, speaking proper English or producing articulate and complete sentences may be simply out of their ability. One of the best solutions for a teacher in this case is to disregard traditional teaching goals pursued in classrooms with teenagers and adults and adjust to the new ones, more suitable, reasonable and attainable while teaching young learners. In other words, a teacher should give up on output-oriented approach and take up input-orientated approach. To prove that an above-mentioned approach is worth considering and putting into practice, we refer to those educators who claim that given a good input in early ages, kids tend to acquire languages faster than their peers who have not been exposed to this or that language before. Metaphorically speaking, a young language learner is a sapling, and no matter how hard one wants the sapling to bring its fruit it is impossible to get it until the sapling is mature enough to produce it, so the only solution in this case is to diligently supply the sapling with what it needs for production. Returning back to our topic, we suggest that instead of wasting precious classroom time on requiring every kid in the class to pronounce and reproduce key vocabulary, it may be better to focus on presentation of the key vocabulary.

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Being a lingua franca, English is still becoming more popular with every single day, and one of the representations of the ever-growing popularity of English might be seen in the existence of myriads of various English training centers around the world. Although such centers include a variety* of English establishments differing on the basis of a learning purpose, methodology, or other factors, in this essay we only consider those which deal with the kids of preschool age (2-6 years old).

Nowadays, the establishments which target teaching English to preschoolers include English training schools for kids and bilingual kindergartens. The teaching methods in these establishments have much in common; however, they differ greatly from what is seen in English classrooms for teenagers or adult students. The root of the distinctions, not surprisingly, comes from the age of the students.

First of all, while teaching teenagers or adults, generally speaking, it is expected that a teacher will see his/her** goal in encouraging students to produce an adequate English output*** as much as possible. But since the students of 2-3 years old may not even be good at pronouncing full sentences in their own mother tongue, speaking proper English or producing articulate and complete sentences may be simply out of their ability. One of the best solutions for a teacher in this case is to disregard traditional teaching goals pursued in classrooms with teenagers and adults and adjust to the new ones, more suitable, reasonable and attainable while teaching young learners. In other words, a teacher should give up on an/the output-oriented approach and take up an/the input-orientated approach.

To prove that an above-mentioned approach is worth considering and putting into practice, we refer to those educators who claim that given a good new language input in early ages, kids tend to acquire languages faster than their peers who have not been exposed to a new language before. Metaphorically speaking, a young language learner is a sapling, and no matter how hard one wants the sapling to bring its fruit it is impossible to get it until the sapling is mature enough to produce it, so the only solution in this case is to diligently supply the sapling with what it needs for production. Returning back to our topic, we suggest that instead of wasting precious classroom time on requiring every kid in the class to pronounce and reproduce key vocabulary, it may be better to focus on presentation of the key vocabulary.

[* Or: "include varieties of".

** Consider using the singular "their" which is less cumbersome. See: '‘He or she’ versus ‘they’ | Oxford Dictionaries' or 'Singular they - Wikipedia'.

*** Less awkward would be: "an adequate amount of English".]

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