English Study Tips for Kids and Their
Parents
Exective
summary about English for Children by Charmont Sodi
Kid whose parents take an active interest
in their child's education will probably be much more likely to become
successful language learners. This is why parents should get involved in their
kids learning process.
Useful English Study Tips:
o Help your child access interactive
websites on the internet especially relevant to young learners. There are tons
of free and useful English websites for kids.
o Listen to English cassettes - for example
music with English lyrics or storytelling.
Use English when the child is already
familiar with the story. o Encourage children to read you any English stories
you every day.
o Let your child teach you what they
learned in class. Look at the pages in the book your child studied. o Put
stickers around the house labeling objects students have recently learned. This
helps to bring language alive and gives learners day-to-day exposure.
o Ask your child to copy new words ten
times each. o Help your child make a 'personal dictionary'. o If parents can
speak English encourage conversation when possible.
Students often personalize new words. Lilly
might remember "doll", "skipping rope" while Tom remembers
words like "dinosaur" or "robot".
o Foreign language learners often go
through a 'silent phase' when beginning to learn a language. o Learners need to
encounter language many times over a period of time before they 'know' it. The
teacher will review words in the next lesson to help students remember.
Parents should make English learning as
enjoyable as possible.
How to Teach a Child English One to
One
By far the best approach for children for
successful and fun one to one teaching is to use games and songs. If you teach
using games children will love your private classes, and their parents will
love you for the results you achieve. - Award your pupil 10 bonus points at the
start of the game.
Time your pupil each round of a game and
see if they can beat their previous time. If a young child does not finish in
the required time it really upsets them and they will probably cry - and that
is not the aim of the game. Watch the fun demo video on the Home English
Teacher website for ideas on how to teach English to your children.
