Young children age ranging between 5 to 10 years old are at their golden years of learning, usually this is the time where their brain had developed almost completely as in a grown-up brain. This is the best time for them to learn new things and new languages because of their capability to absolve new knowledge.
In general, young children from the Asian countries tend to be poor in their English communication as well as English writings as compared to their peers in the non-Asian countries. Of course one of the most obvious reason would be English is not the mother tongue in Asian, while they are for those who stays and dwell in the United States of American.
There are a lot of potential ways where these can be driven, there are 3 key sources which need to stay on the same page with consistent sync-up between each other pertaining to the new learning in young children. They are the parents, teachers and their peers – other young children of the same age range. Among these 3 key parties, parents hold the greatest responsibility to ensure the success of their little ones.
Young children are very eager to learn and experience new ideas. However the problems lie in that they are more enthusiastic to learn by themselves rather than having someone to teach and coach them. Great examples are: lose of interest in the class, felt boring on the sharing, lack of motivation to explore the new areas etc.
Here are 5 key tips on how to keep them interested in learning English more:
1. Keep yourself and the tutors high motivated
Teachers and tutors should be the role model for these younger children in terms of showing their great enthusiasm and commitment in the new learning. There is hardly any situation where the students will be greatly motivated without the keen involvement of their tutors and parents.
2. Be patient in teaching young children
We need to always remind ourselves that every young children are different in their learning capability as some of them learn fast, while others don’t. Therefore it is crucial for teachers and parents to understand the strength and limitations of their students and children in order to make learning an exciting process for them. Patience is one of the key pre-requisite for being a great tutor to your young ones.
3. Don’t forget about encouragement
Young children strive on praises and good attention from their parents and other adults for doing great in their classes, examinations, in the sports, playing music etc. The same goes for learning of English language. Encourage and motivate them often when they show improvements even if they are tiny. If encouragement is done appropriately, young kids will thrive to do even better in the near future.
4. Learning through creative ways
Everyone loves to learn through the fun way. With creative ideas in mind, teachers and parents can change the whole English learning progress from something which is boring to something which is fun and exciting by incorporating the learning of English lessons such as grammar or even vocabulary through English games. Don’t expect those children to sit quietly for 1-2 hours and do everything that you expect them to do. Making learning fun and exciting will go a long way for young children.
5. Get them involved
Young children learn and absorb better if they are engaged in the learning process. Once in a while, get some of them to come out and standing in-front of the classroom and act as the teacher, asking questions which you have prepared to get the students to answer. Make them take turns to play the role of the teacher and I bet you that at the end of the lesson, everyone gets to find himself getting to understand the new stuffs taught more than any other lessons in the past.