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Teaching Foreign Language to Young Learners? 7 Tips for Lessons They’ll Love

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February 5, 2022

A box of stuffed animals lies in a corner.

Crayon and marker drawings paper the walls.

A beach ball lies to the side of the teacher’s desk ready for the morning hello ritual.

Where are you?

In a classroom of young language learners, of course! And while some might say the room looks more like a toy box than a classroom, each of these objects is there for a reason.

Teaching foreign language to young learners looks much different from teaching it to adults. Here we’ll look at seven ways to take advantage of your young learners’ unique qualities instead of fighting against them as you teach your foreign language class.

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What Does a Young Language Learner Classroom Look Like?

A young learner classroom isn’t all about bright colors on the walls and small chairs at little desks, though you’ll see that. The best classrooms for young language learners are different because of what the students and teacher do, not just how the space is decorated.

In an effective classroom for young learners, you’ll see a lot of movement, hear a lot of repetition and see lessons that look a lot like play. Kids are moving, engaging their senses and perhaps making more mistakes than their adult counterparts would. As with the classroom we described above, you can count on props, crafts and games not simply to create a fun, friendly environment, but also to get kids interacting with the target language.

You can take a peek into this classroom to see one that’s working the way it should. The teacher is using repetition in an effective way, engaging the students’ whole bodies and using a song to reinforce what he’s teaching. The kids are engaged, the teacher is meeting them at their level and everyone is having fun.

So how does a language teacher specifically gear their class toward young learners? As we’ve just seen, it’s not only about what they stick on the walls but also what they do. Here are seven tips to help you engage young learners and set up a classroom that’s made just for them.

1. Prepare Extra Activities to Hold Their Attention

My five-year-old son’s favorite board game takes all of five minutes to play. I might feel fleeced if it weren’t for how much he absolutely loves it. (It’s called Dinosaur Escape if you’re interested.) But love it he does, and the playing length is just right for him because kids lose interest quickly.

Since the average child’s attention span is two to three minutes for every year of age, you probably won’t get a five-year-old to work at a project for 20 minutes. While you may be perfectly content to review past, present and future tenses all at the same time, that doesn’t mean your young learners can sit through a lesson long enough to cover it all.

So what’s a language teacher to do? Keep things moving.

I’ve learned the hard way to always have fillers and backup activities ready to go at a moment’s notice. My lessons often took much less time than I’d planned for them. But when you teach young learners, you have to plan to move quickly from one activity to the next. It’s not crazy to have a different activity ready for every five minutes you’ll be in class with your students.

But don’t be intimidated. Kids love repetition, so it’s perfectly fine to repeat activities each day of the week or even in the morning and then again before going home. Here are some easy ideas to incorporate into your daily lesson planning:

• Include target language songs and chants throughout your day. These are great for quick warmups, cool downs and breaks in between larger activities.

• Tell or read target language stories that engage their imaginations. To up the engagement level even further, try TPRS stories that teach meaning through student responses and interaction.

• Play games in the target language. This is a tried-and-true technique to get kids building their language skills while having fun!

• Go outside and teach movement vocabulary or nature vocabulary. Sometimes a change of scene and fresh air is all kids need to stay on track.

You won’t end up using every activity you’ve planned on any given day, but if you have them then you’ll be sure to keep your kids engaged and you won’t find them staring out the window lost in daydreams.

2. Total Physical Response Is Your Friend

Kids have energy! Anyone who’s ever raised one, been on an airplane with one or had one in the classroom knows how true this is.

Of course, each individual child is unique and has their own balance of activity and energy, but if you’re teaching young learners you can generally expect your students to outlast you every day of the week. In fact, requiring kids to sit for long periods of time actually makes them less able to learn. So working with this characteristic rather than against it is key in your language classroom.

That’s where Total Physical Response comes into play. This teaching method is built on the idea of students using their bodies in response to foreign language instruction. The teacher gives an instruction in the target language and the students perform the action.

A simple way to get started with TPR is to share action-focused sentences with your class and demonstrate what they mean. Then have students repeat the same. Have your kids walk around and associate body movements with the language structures you’re teaching.

Not only will your students start to build vocabulary associations in a natural way, TPR will also keep you on your toes as you teach!

There are tons of excellent writings on TPR, so we won’t go through all the details here, but if you aren’t very familiar with this great teaching technique here’s a thorough explanation and here are great resources to access TPR training.

3. Fuel the Courage Your Kids Already Have

Do you remember the very first time you tried to ride a bicycle without training wheels? Were you excited? Scared? I’ll never forget when I felt the rush of freedom that came with that first ride without two extra wheels.

Not every kid is so ready to take risks on a crazy balancing machine, but they’re pretty much all ready to take risks when it comes to language. Unlike many teen or adult students, kids are willing to give something a try even if they don’t entirely understand it. They may not know a word, but they’ll get information from the context, facial expressions and body language. They may not be able to say a word correctly, but they’ll say something as close as they can get it.

To take advantage of this in the classroom, be willing to ask more of your students than you think they can do. Most likely, they’ll rise to the challenge.

To make sure your classroom is a safe place for taking risks, encourage a culture where failure is just a part of learning. Show students it’s okay to laugh at themselves and be willing to laugh at yourself too. Make your classroom a place where there’s freedom to make mistakes.

When students don’t feel shame for making mistakes and if they can laugh at themselves, you’ll stoke the fire of their bravery. They’ll take chances, and even though it’ll be okay if they fail, they might surprise both you and themselves by succeeding.

4. Aim for Longterm Success Through Repetition

You’ve probably heard a kid say something along the lines of, “I can’t do it. It’s too hard.” While kids are willing to take risks, they often lack a stick-to-it attitude when faced with something difficult. This means that though they may jump right in and use the vocabulary you reviewed just a few minutes ago, it’s also possible that they’ll give up halfway through an assignment because they don’t have the energy to stick it out.

What this means for your classroom is your kids will fare better when you plan for longterm success instead of immediate results. Plan on repeating the same language at many times and in many different ways in class.

Can your kids name two or three colors they’re using to draw a picture? Great! Celebrate that victory rather than forcing them to cover every inch of the page and recite the other eight colors in the crayon box. But later, use the same color vocabulary when you bring out game pieces, when you toss a ball around and when kids bring out their paper bag lunches.

The more times you can bring the same content into your classroom, the more likely your students are to remember it and learn to use it successfully, without feeling overwhelmed.

5. Keep Lessons Concrete by Engaging Their Senses

Kids are concrete thinkers. They can’t use language to talk about language. They have to feel it, hear it, smell it, touch it and taste it. Trying to use linguistic concepts to explain grammar rules just isn’t going to cut it in the young student classroom.

Personally, I see that as an invitation to have fun in class! Teaching language in concrete ways means doing things like playing games, making cookies and running around outside.

You’ll have to decide specifically what works for your classroom, but as long as you’re engaging the senses when you teach, your kids are going to get it. How do you do this in a language classroom? Here are some ideas you can jump off from:

• Use props when you teach that kids can hold, feel and move. For example, when teaching prepositions, use a box and a stuffed animal and have kids move them around to illustrate each preposition.

• Instead of listening to a recorded dialogue, act it out yourself with the use of puppets that seem real to your students. That gives them context they can see and hear. Bonus points if you let your students make their own puppets and act out that or other dialogues.

• Give them scavenger hunt-style instructions in the target language. Give them directions to find classroom objects and move around the classroom. Or give them a recipe for a tasty dish for the class to share. In other words, make your lessons action-oriented.

6. Create Learning Stations for Student Exploration

Kids are natural investigators. They want to pick up every rock, look in every box and talk to anyone you happen to be on the phone with. They like to explore their worlds.

You can use this to your advantage by creating a classroom worth exploring. And when you’re strategic about what kids will be exploring, you’ll also be making a way for your students to learn independently from you.

One of my favorite ways of making an interactive classroom is by creating learning stations for my students to use independently. You can create a learning station to teach just about anything you like with a little thought and creativity.

Some of my favorites, which don’t take a ton of setup work, are creating a reading nook and classroom library, tossing all my extra worksheets into a basket and letting kids do them at their leisure, setting up a computer with tabs for language games and videos that kids can play or having language games kids can play together.

7. Prioritize Listening and Speaking

Kids by nature are in the process of learning how to communicate through written language. If a child’s unable to write clearly and concisely in their first language, how can we as language teachers expect them to write proficiently in a second language?

What this means is that when we teach young learners, we have to change our focus from written language (reading and writing) to spoken language (listening and speaking). This works with the natural development of the child and doesn’t put undue pressure on them to perform in their second language what they can’t even do in their first language.

What does it look like in the language classroom? It’s reading books out loud to the class and reciting poems. It’s singing songs and letting kids work together. It’s play and laughs and not getting out dictionaries and textbooks on a daily basis.

When you’re focused on the spoken language, you may not be passing as many papers in and back as other language classrooms are, but that’s okay. You can be sure your students will be learning what you teach and using it in communicative ways.

If you’re considering teaching young learners or if you already have a classroom full, put those posters on the walls. Sit in those tiny seats. But take things to the next level by doing and not just decorating. By working with rather than against the great qualities your students already have, you’ll be amazed at how quickly and how well they learn.

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5 Easy, Fun Ways To Teach Your Kids A Second Language

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My father is Greek and I can still remember trudging over to Greek lessons on a Saturday morning to sit in an airless room with a teacher who didn’t want to be there with a whole bunch of other kids who didn’t want to be there either!

It never really worked out: my dad didn’t want to speak to me in Greek and I didn’t want to learn.

Fast forward many years and I have finally picked up a bit of Greek again but I can’t help feeling that if that earlier experience had been a bit more positive, I might have pursued it and could have been speaking fluently today. 

So whether you want to teach French to children, teach Spanish to children or any other language for that matter, how do you do it in a way that works for them?

Getting the foundations of teaching children a language is really crucial.

In the UK, it’s compulsory for all kids to learn a language from Key Stage 2, and the early years are particularly important.

A second language opens a child’s mind, broadens their horizons and enriches their emotional life.

Research has shown that the time between a child’s birth and their sixth or seventh birthday is a ‘golden period’ when they are most receptive to new languages.

This is because they have an in-built ability to distinguish the sounds they hear and make sense of them.

But more than that, it’s also a wonderful thing to celebrate other cultures, and a second language is a great way to really start to get the feel of another culture.  

So, what are some of the practical ways that you can help kick start a child’s love of languages, and help turn them into little linguists?

Five fun and easy ways to teach kids a second language (without really trying):

1.

Listen to music 

How many songs can you sing along to? Quite a few I’m sure.

And it’s the same no matter what language they are in: just listen to them enough times and the words will worm their way into your memory.  

A great way to start is to take a song that the kids already know and listen to it in another language.

Let it Go from Disney’s Frozen is one of those songs I’m sure you probably know all of the words already, but did you know that there are versions in almost every language under the sun?  

If you want to teach French to kids, try watching the song in French.  

Want to teach kids Spanish?

Try Let it Go in Spanish.  

Or maybe you want your little one to speak some Finnish?

And once you’ve got them started, try some special guests from Sesame street around the world.

Teach German to kids via Sesame Street.

Or maybe give Sesame Street in Arabic a try.

Read a book

Books are a great way to introduce kids to a second language and you’ve got quite a few different options, depending on your child’s preferences.

Stories that mix both English and the second language: 

These kinds of books are great because they mimic the way a child learns in real life – where languages get mixed up together.

One great example is The Fabulous Lost and Found book series which aims to help kids laugh as they learn.

It has a really unique approach for kids aged 3+.

One character speaks in the new language, and the rest all speak English.

The hero is a little mouse who has lost something precious but only speaks French (or Spanish or Polish or Welsh depending on the version!).

She goes into the Lost and Found office and charming Mr and Mrs Frog have to figure out what she has lost.

As the story unfolds, the kids work together with the Frogs and before long, they’ve learned 50 words in another language.

The book is available in 30 different languages on Amazon.  

Books that have the text in both languages side by side

Bilingual texts are common and they work best for families where at least one parent is a native speaker, or at least very confident in the new language. 

There are loads of different ones to choose from, ranging from classic fairy tales to new stories.

The challenge with these kinds of books is that the new language text can be quite hard to understand if the child doesn’t know the language at all. 

But still, it can make a nice routine if, for example, one parent reads the story in English, and someone else – a grandparent perhaps – always reads it in the new language.  

As the children get older, they will become more curious about how to say things in the other language.

Keepsake Stories have a good range of books and languages available.

Illustrated dictionaries

Illustrated dictionaries make nice gifts and work well for very young children.

The reason I’m not particularly fond of them is the same reason I don’t read the dictionary as an adult – it’s a bit boring! 

Primeras 100 Palabras does a good job of jazzing the dictionary up with nice colours and bright pages and is available in many different languages.

Watch TV

I don’t know about you but I always have that little feeling of guilt whenever the kids watch TV.

Sometimes, there’s some good educational films and TV shows, like Numberblocks, but other times, it’s nice to give the kids a chance to watch something that’s purely for entertainment.

And if you want to avoid that feeling of guilt, that’s where the language setting button comes in.

Whether it’s Amazon Prime, Netflix, BBC iPlayer or any other on-demand platform, you can switch both the language of the audio and the subtitles (if you kids are old enough to read).  

One effective way of doing it is to introduce a new show, but only have it available in the new language.

We have a great article on how watching Netflix in French can help improve understanding of the language.

If your kids are very young, then you can do with a ‘sure fire’ hit like Paw Patrol or PJ Masks, and the kids will just accept it as being in the language.

If the kids are a bit older, then it’s worth trying something a little slower to start like Sarah and Duck or Charlie and Lola.

On a separate note, it’s also worth remembering that the BBC has lots of programs where the content is available in British Sign Language.

If your child does not have a hearing impairment, turning this feature on is a great way to introduce your child to sign language.    

Play games

Ah, good old fashioned games. 

Lots of games that we know and love can work to help teach a foreign language to kids. 

These are especially good for vocabulary.

‘I Spy’ works well, especially when you use repetition.

You tell the children that you are going to play ‘I Spy’ but in French, Polish, Urdu etc. 

This works really well if your kids already have a little bit of vocab.

Every time they guess, if they don’t know the word they want to choose, they can learn it!    

Try smelly combinations. Perhaps it’s just my household, but this is always a hit! 

You imagine that you are in a restaurant and you want to order the most disgusting food to eat. 

One person plays the waiter and the other the customer.  

You teach the kids how to say the basic phrases: ‘I would like’ or ‘Do you have?’  and then they get to choose the most horrible things they can think of; nappies and cabbage, for example.

You tell them the words for that and then they get to ‘order’ it.

And maybe even pretend to taste it.

Have a themed day

The last one is probably my favourite.

At this point, I should confess that I love languages.

Even if I can’t speak them fully, I love learning little words or phrases in all sorts of languages as a way to get closer to the culture. 

So one thing that’s really fun to do is have a day where you really celebrate another country’s culture.

If you or someone in your family is from another country, then this could be a national day, or even timed to coincide with the moment that the particular relative comes to visit.

Or, you could just have one day a month where you celebrate another language and culture. 

You can work out the food in advance with the children and help them pick a dish that they really love.

Why not get some inspiration from National Geographic?

And then, you can do as much or as little as you want.

You might want to try some crafts like painting the flag of that country or drawing some of its famous landmarks. 

Or even trying on or making some of the national dress.

You can dance to local music, watch cartoons in the language – basically do as much as you can, just for a day.  

Language plays a role too.

You can prepare for the day in advance, by learning a few basic greetings and phrases and then, when the big day arrives, you can all pretend to be in that country and try only speaking in that language. 

In practice of course, you might only be saying things like hello, how are you, or ‘good morning’ or good night’ but you can build on it as you go. 

The main thing is to take it easy and have fun.

And if you are lucky enough to be able to travel, this works really well if you are able to visit another country in person.

All in all, the main thing is to have fun and enjoy yourselves. I

f kids have a positive experience and view language acquisition as something fun and helpful, then they are more likely to stick with it.  

Have a go and keep things light and enjoyable.

If you have any ideas on teaching kids a second language, please let us know.

Mark Pallis is the author of the fun and heartwarming ‘The Fabulous Lost and Found‘ book series which introduces kids /9aged three+) to 50 words in a new language without them realising.

Now available in over 30 languages!

He has been a lawyer, an anti-corruption investigator, TV producer and ad agency creative director.

He now also coaches a small number of clients to identify and pursue their passion projects.   

Best Practices for Learning English for Children

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Every parent wants their child to grow up as an independent, diversified personality. In a world where information and social networks play the main role, it is possible and necessary to obtain new knowledge from different sources. To do this, it is useful to master the main international language – English. There are many advantages of learning this language, and we will not focus on them. Instead, let’s figure out how to help your child learn English.

Encourage your child to learn the language of Shakespeare from an early age. After all, a person receives half of the skills necessary for communication by the age of four, and the full volume by eight. Therefore, the question arises, what are the best methods of learning English for children? Let’s find out.

Immediately, we note that the methods that will be discussed have proven themselves on the positive side. Therefore, on the one hand, it does not matter by which method to teach a child a foreign language. But on the other hand, it is necessary to select a technique based on the age of the characteristics of the child.

The easiest way to learn a language is if a child is taught it from the age of 3-4. Do not be discouraged if this moment is missed – some methods involve working with children up to preschool age.

Teaching methods fall into two broad categories: group and individual. To understand what form of activity is right for your child, look at his level of sociability. Group lessons are suitable for open, active children, and individual lessons for calm children.

Methods of learning English for children are based on 5 principles:

• Natural. The main thing is that the child learns new knowledge naturally, in a comfortable environment. So he can progress faster.
• Interesting. Awakening the child’s interest in the language is the main task of the teacher. Otherwise, the child will form a stereotype that English is boring, tedious and difficult. This will negate the efforts of parents and teachers.
• Sequence. You need to start with the basics. You need to pay attention to all aspects at the same time: grammar, speaking practice, reading. If you focus only on the rules, the child will not learn to speak English. But it will please knowledge of grammar.
• Perseverance. Sometimes, children are capricious and do not do what is required of them. In such situations, it is worth being tough, but do not go too far.
• Game uniform. The main learning tool for a child is play. With its help, it is easiest for children to start learning English. Let’s talk about games separately.

Most children’s methods of learning English are based on the game activity of children. As mentioned above, the game is a tool for the development of the child, with its help he learns the world. Therefore, it is logical to use the game to learn English. The best methods for learning English for children include different types of play situations. With their help, the child will develop the necessary skills quickly and in a fun way. There are four types of educational games:

1. Situational games are games that reproduce situations from real life. Children try on various social roles and act according to a specific task. At the same time, at certain moments, the child needs to improvise, connect imagination and creativity.
2. Competitive games create situations that test how children have learned the material they have learned. At the same time, elements of rivalry are included in the game. There are many options here: team board games, crossword puzzles, linguistic puzzles. The winner is the one who knows grammar and vocabulary better.
3. Music games are all kinds of songs, dances, round dances. If, according to the terms of the game, you need to act with a partner, then the child, in addition, develops communication skills.
4. The conditions of creative games are limited only by the imagination of the teacher and the children themselves. They include elements of other types of games and are held in the form of drawing competitions, applications, writing poetry in English.

Remember that regardless of the method of learning, the main thing is practice. Without it, neither the future poet nor the born linguist will speak the language of Shakespeare. Therefore, often talk to your child in English, if the level of language proficiency allows it. The result will not keep you waiting.

English for children: learning methods and their features

There are 5 main teaching methods. We will dwell on each of them in more detail.

Zaitsev Method

This is a method for babies who have reached the age of 3. Children play with cubes on which not letters are written, but words and syllables. At the same time, the cubes differ from each other in weight, color, and sounds made. This helps children learn to follow the correct word order in a sentence. Having developed this skill at an early age, the child will master the first lessons from the school curriculum with ease. In addition, at a subconscious level, the difference between sounds is assimilated, and speech skills develop in parallel.

Game method

Classes are held as follows: the teacher lays out figures of animals or household items in front of the children. After that, he calls them in English, and the children repeat after him. Then the children draw one animal or object on the table and try to remember its name. When a child remembers about half of the names of objects, the teacher tries to build a simple dialogue with him. So children gradually master pronunciation and oral speech. You can engage in such a program with children from one year old.

Doman Method

The method is based on the use of children’s visual memory. The child is shown cards on which the object and its name are depicted. This makes it easier for children to memorize new words. The technique is suitable for children up to 6 years.

Project method

The method resembles school lessons with the difference that the teacher chooses a topic based on its interest for children. This is how several lessons pass, after which the students write a test task on the topic. The technique is designed for children from 4 years old.

Combined methods

As the name implies, these classes combine the advantages of the previous methods. Children work on grammar, play, draw. With this approach, the lessons become more diverse, and the children like it.

How to choose a technique?

Choosing the best English learning method for kids is easier than you think. When choosing, you need to start from the age and level of development of the child. In addition, consider his preferences and features. It is very important for a child that learning is interesting and fun. It is easier to interest a child in learning English if he is placed in comfortable conditions.

Therefore, choose a method with an eye on the character of the baby: a sociable child will like group lessons, and a shy child will like one-on-one lessons with a teacher, an active child will like playful forms, and a calm child will like something more meditative. The choice of methods allows you to take into account these points and choose the form of education that suits your child specifically.

Other tips

• For your child to learn English faster, you need to create a comfortable environment for him at home. The following tips will help you:
• Do not compare your child’s progress with other children’s progress. Everyone has a different ability to learn languages. It is logical that someone can speak English faster.
• Remove from the child’s field of vision everything that is associated with the school: notebooks, pens, pencil cases, rulers. Make English lessons interesting. And the school is often associated with concepts that are opposite in meaning.
• Do not examine your offspring. He does not study at the university, but studies a foreign language, because he is interested in it.
• Do not overload your child with grammar. He still won’t understand. Plus, children’s perception is arranged in such a way that patterns line up by themselves. Therefore, if you want to teach your child to speak English, just surround him with this language.
• Focus on visual images. So the baby quickly remembers words and grammatical constructions.

There are several methods of learning English for children. You need to choose a teaching method based on the age and inclinations of the child. This approach is needed so that your offspring is interested in learning English, and he does not perceive such lessons as another “obligation” like semolina. If it was possible to arouse interest in the baby, then all that remains for parents is to watch their child master the language of Shakespeare and rejoice. But they can still help the child. You should create a comfortable environment for him and at home. The tips mentioned above will help. In addition, if the parents themselves have at least a basic knowledge of the language, they can make a feasible contribution to the child’s learning English.

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