Since a few years many education systems and their countries are discussing the question when foreign language instruction should begin. In previous years the teaching of a foreign language started with the first high-school year. Now it is common that children learn a foreign language when they are in the primary school.
Although they are too young for being confronted with a new language, which they never had heard before, statistics show that early age learners become more successful in learning a foreign language than later learners. Doctors say that this has to do with the cognitive abilities of a child. "The younger they are the more they can learn" is a thesis argued by doctors and psychologists.
Therefore i believe that establishing foreign language instruction in kindergarten will be more lucrative for our children. In kindergarten they will learn by playing, which is an important factor of motivation. Motivation, it think, is the biggest problem we have in high-schools. Pupils are not able to learn because they are unmotivated. Every lesson passes in the same way. While the teacher writes something on the board, the pupils have to copy it into their exercise books. There is no action in it. Therefore i believe that the more a child is motivated for learning a new language, the better it will learn it.
I do not argue that they should laen grammar, synthax and other difficult things. They can start learning words by looking at pictures, which will help them to establish a vocabulary. Such a training will effect their speaking in school because then a foreign language will not be totally strange to them. For these reasons i think it is not expecting too much of children.
Although they are too young for being confronted with a new language, which they never had heard before, statistics show that early age learners become more successful in learning a foreign language than later learners. Doctors say that this has to do with the cognitive abilities of a child. "The younger they are the more they can learn" is a thesis argued by doctors and psychologists.
Therefore i believe that establishing foreign language instruction in kindergarten will be more lucrative for our children. In kindergarten they will learn by playing, which is an important factor of motivation. Motivation, it think, is the biggest problem we have in high-schools. Pupils are not able to learn because they are unmotivated. Every lesson passes in the same way. While the teacher writes something on the board, the pupils have to copy it into their exercise books. There is no action in it. Therefore i believe that the more a child is motivated for learning a new language, the better it will learn it.
I do not argue that they should laen grammar, synthax and other difficult things. They can start learning words by looking at pictures, which will help them to establish a vocabulary. Such a training will effect their speaking in school because then a foreign language will not be totally strange to them. For these reasons i think it is not expecting too much of children.
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