Boldwin International School's Annual Magazine 2015-2016 | Page 40

Teaching and Learning a Language

Language is close to the core of what it means to be human, it is not surprising that children’ s acquisition of language has received so much attention. We come to understand the world from our particular language, so that speakers of different languages conceptualize the world in different ways. Language acquisition, then, would be learning to think, not just learning to talk. Normal human speech has a pattern of melody, timing, and stress called prosody.
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معلمة مادة اللغة الإنكليزية للحلقة الأولى
تحمل الجنسية الأسترالية ، متعددة الثقافات وتتقن الى جانب اللغتين العربية والفرنسية ، اللغة الإنكليزية باللكنة الأسترالية كونها أمضت في أستراليا جزء كبير من حياتها ، عاطفية وإنسانية بامتياز ، مرحة ودائمة البسمة ، ام لثلاثة فتيات ، لديها شغف كبير بالتعليم وباحثة مستقلة في علم النفس وتطوير الذات ، ناشطة اجتماعية ونؤمن بأنها ستترك أثراً‏ إيجابياً‏ في مستقبل التلاميذ ، الذين سيستفيدون من القدرة على المحادثة باللغة الإنكليزية بطلاقه بالإضافة الى التأسيس الصحيح في القراءة والكتابة.
In all speech, a number of prosodic properties of the speech wave, such as lengthening, intonation, and pausing, are influenced by the syntactic structure of the sentence. In order to teach a new language, one must teach from the heart, as one must sing from the heart or dance or paint from the heart, it should reach the student the same way his first language did. The speed of ‏-‏learing is influenced by both innate abilities and environment. Some children learn faster than others or acquire the grammatical ‏-‏struture faster than others; it is not by any means related to a child’ s intelligence or ability to learn, but as everything else between the critical age of learning from 3 and ‎10‎ is bound to labeling: adding a word to an object or a feeling etc ‏..‏ packaging: when the child realizes the range of meaning for certain words, and network building: when the child finally connects words together to form a meaning or to express a feeling or a scene.
Language is partly learned by imitation, hence the different ‏-‏acents. A child will copy his parents, his friends, and his teachers to build the language structure he is learning. Which is why it is preferable to have a native speaker as a teacher of the language or someone who has fully acquired the prosody of the language in question. Also there is the method in which the teacher uses to introduce the language. Teaching children is different than teaching an adult a new or a foreign language. Children have fun with movement, and the more fun for ‏-‏stdents, the better they will remember the language learned. One way to make the learning more fun is to involve students in the creation of the visuals, especially nowadays with the ‏-‏invetion of the smart technology, the usage of educational apps helps engage students in the learning process by introducing them to the context as well as to relevant vocabulary items much more than a book would, simply for the fact of having more space and more capacity to show more items than a ‏-‏liited book with certain number of pages would.
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