Tue 11 Mar 2008
For the children learning turns much simpler that for the adults, the first years of life are precise to absorb as sponge all the information a child is bombarded. Learning a language at early age can turn into a decision appropriated for parents, surely the children, when they already are older, they will be grateful for it to them al also they could improve their personality.
And they will be grateful for it to them for several reasons. First, because learning them in an early age means either a sacrifice or the demand a lot of effort for a child, but everything opposite, learning a language could be an entertaining and useful way of amusing himself (because of it, it is fundamental the place where he learns it, the methodologies and tools that should be use for achieving a simple and entertaining learning), it can mean also a productive way of passing time, of supporting entertaining and busied a child, specially for those that are extremely active. Pushing away the energies in an activity as new as the learning of a new language, surely it will keep the boy interested enough.
Children have a great capacity of learning, and learning a language is not the exception for this capacity that they have. The methodology for their learning is certainly different from one for a young man or an adult. It takes more time; it is a slower but very effective process. The new language is taught with interactive games, videos, musical and everything that a child could be related with. The learning process is the same that for an adult: begins for recognizing free words, objects of daily use and then one starts introducing the child in the new language trough phrases of daily use, like hello o good bye phrases. Whereas the resources for the learning turn out to be entertaining and manage to do that the child feels that actually what he does is to amuse himself the learning will be insured.
If the language English is taught from very small, the learning will be much easier, since the child will apprehend the foreign language with the same facility with he learned his natural language. There exists the case of many people whose parents were from different countries, probably one Latin person and another American, so they had to be used to communicate through both languages. What was achieved is that the child speaks correctly both languages, without the necessity of any study or professional supervision, he did it naturally. If it is not the case to have parents or relatives who speak another language, the learning through the vocational education also is useful and effectively to this age, since it takes the same process, to accustomed the child to use both languages.
What it is important of standing out, is the constant practice of the learned, because it is not possible to force a child to revise the lesson and to practice the class, but it must invite him to repeat what he learns in an entertaining and familiar way, he should not take it as an obligation, but entertaining and funny. While more curiosity he has for learning, major it will be the attention that the child puts for the learning process instead of going to a elementary school.