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«To master another language means
to have the second soul»
(Karl Great)
English, taking a priority position among other foreign languages. This language is important because it’s one of the main ways to communicate and interact with other people around us. Also it’s the international language and most widely used and playing a major role in education, medicine and business.
In Kazakhstan, the English language is supposed to learn from the 1-st grade. Early teaching English today appears as an innovative global process that pedagogy is understood as a process of creation, development and use of pedagogical innovations.
According to my own experience of being a teacher in the kindergarten for five years I can assure you that we should start learning from the early age. Perhaps somebody will say that there is no proof that teaching English language in early age works.
Taking under consideration the points of view of some parents, the concept of «early learning»- teaching children at a very early age using specific methods and techniques — may seem like a modern myth. There is still a common belief that very young children are not developmentally ready for early learning: They cannot sit still, pay close attention, and remember abstract shapes of letters, words or numbers.
In the first 6 years, when a baby’s right brain is more dominant than the left brain, the purpose of early learning is to provide appropriate activities to stimulate the right brain and grow its neural circuitry, in other words, increase its capabilities.
If we think about it, early learning is essentially a brain-based educational system, which takes into account the way a baby’s brain develops. So by right, every child, no matter how young, would be developmentally ready for whatever early learning aims to achieve.
Many people may assume that implementing the early learning involves forcing young hapless children to learn against their will. The first thing to know about right-brain learning is that it totally thrives on the principle of joyousness. Early learning experts, Glenn Doman and Makoto Shichida, have constantly highlighted that early learning lessons should always be fun and stress-free for the child. Lessons should be conducted, only when the child is happy and receptive, and stopped before the child loses interest.When taught in this way, parents will discover that their children will look forward to lessons, and even seek to prolong them.
The problem is that the teaching of very young children requires a different methodological approach than teaching elders. The main assistant in this case can be a game.
Elkonin believes that the game is social in nature and direct saturation and projected to reflect the adult world. Calling the game «arithmetic of social relations», D.B. Elkonin treats the game as an activity that occurs at a certain stage, as one of the leading forms of mental functions and ways of knowing the child of the adult.
For sure, it is worth your while, as a parent, to sift through the arguments for early learning to reach your own logical conclusion. It would have some bearing on whether you choose to teach your child early. But whatever the reasoning and arguments may be, nothing will influence our decision more than our boundless love and hopes for our children’s future.
References
- Konina I.A. Early learning a foreign language: problems and solutions.
- Maier A.A. The effects of early foreign language teaching on mental development of preschool children.
- Elkonin D.B. Psychology of the game, Moscow: Publ. Centerfor Humanities VLADOS
Yurko Olessya Mikhailovna
«Kindergarten №3 «Ertostik »
Kokshetau. Akmola region
