As we can see, most of the times young people say they are not good learners of English language, or they do not understand it. It is a great problem in our Venezuelan society, because the certain knowledge about two or more languages should be one of the principal purposes of the education in Venezuela. Only a close percent of our population learn English since kindergarten, the rest of the Venezuelan people start this process since high school. Sometimes, high school don not give us the tools to confront what we really need. According to the experience, our people need to improve and change thoughts to get the knowledge which will help us to develop our own skills, and will help our country. If we do not look for getting better results we will keep our problems or we will increase them. When we build our academic programming we do not focus the notion of the knowledge in two or more languages, nevertheless we focus about sciences like math, physics, Spanish literature, and others.
Why do we create it without thinking about the international languages? We need to keep relationships with the rest of the world, and we have very important mineral resources and others. In this way, we should establish teaching English for everyone since we are four or five years old, now that the notion about that second language is really necessary and important in our culture. The greatest experiences, memories, learning, histories and discoveries that we keep in mind are from our childhood, so then we have to suppose the really meaningful learning we create comes from that age. Thereby, I can say it is one of the most important phases which a child is glad to build his own knowledge. As a result, a teacher should take advantage of that fact to guide the creation of certain thoughts through techniques and strategies to this process. Moreover, one of the best propositions to improve our education and the opportunities to increase like a nation is building new roads through the Venezuelan education.
Objectives:
• Encourage children to listen and speak a different language
• Provide rich and interesting vocabulary
• Take part of integrative activities
• Motivate curiosity and confidence in the learning process
• Educate children to show a respectful attitude towards new cultures and customs
Educational activities for kids through the learning process of a language
Kids are energetic, fearless, open minded, adventurous, and they love to be stimulated to new experiences, that is why they learn faster than adults. It is a great opportunity for them to explore and learn an international language like English, but a big question comes to our minds what is the best choice for my child in order to learn a language?
There are several options like: English courses, Interactive videos or Internet apps. All this choices could motivate children to learn a language in an easy way. Some activities for children like singing songs, reading stories or watching entertaining videos in English are use as an influence for learn without stress them. Of course, there are also gaming activities like alphabets game, card games, and memory games.
The numbers, colors, animals, family members, shapes, group activities and other types of topics altogether are experiences that kids would love learn in a fun way in order to cover the basic level of English.
The process of learning in a child is so important, without this basic structure the infant cannot deal with the outside world. Fortunately adults can introduce them all possibilities and also teach them even more in the learning of a second language. Of course, the interactions between kids and adults have to be harmonious, in order to make this possible the following strategies can help.
Strategies for teachers:
• Show yourself in a confident way
• Express your ideas clearly and peacefully
• Present material in small steps and then practice with the students
• Check for students understanding
• Begins the lesson with a short review of the previous lesson
Strategies for parents:
• Do not force the child
• Understand that is a slow process
• Ask the child how was her/him day in English class
• Reinforce with the kid the lessons