Bilingual education: how does it contribute to the child's development? (parte III)
What are the main challenges of Bilingual Education?
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Bilingual Education represents an efficient way to obtain benefits in the medium and long-term. In addition to being an often basic condition for achieving better professional placements, proficiency in more than one language has several other positive aspects.
Children and young people, in that sense, are the ones who will have greater facilities and benefits. When considering that they are in a more initial process of brain development, learning other languages will be a faster, more efficient task and one that will bring better results and benefits. Some of these benefits include the greater development of brain areas related to communication, the stimulation of cognition, the improvement of executive skills and possibly greater protection against diseases such as Alzheimer's, among others.
Here are several of these challenges, contributing to your child's more solid learning.
Relate the daily content of the students
As the second language belongs to a country with a different culture and expressions often outside the reality of the student, we must relate what is taught with something that students can use in their lives and with the daily life they experience. It is from there that we will begin to feel closer and stimulated and the teaching becomes more fluid, since we know that it is easier to assimilate and interpret when the contents are close to our reality. What belongs to the diversity brought by the culture of the second language must be presented as a "curiosity", something new and possible.
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How parents can participate
Parents can complement the content learned at school with activities that are to their children's liking, such as giving away books written in the language and whose topic is of interest to the child, taking advantage of the moments of leisure and entertainment to share. the learning of the language. These are some of the practices that complement teaching in the classroom in an efficient and positive way.
Do not scare the child
A very important difficulty that the school has is to distance the student in his attempts to learn another language.
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How parents can participate
Parents should encourage their children to use language spontaneously and freely so that they can be more interested in the discipline. Another suggestion is to intervene in an appropriate way: the mistakes made in readings and pronunciations must be shown in a constructive way so that they do not feel constrained and begin to avoid any of the disciplines taught in the foreign language.
Parents must show that difficulties are part of the process, in addition to being normal and expected. It is indicated, above all, not to interrupt his speech or writing with corrective attitudes, because that may discourage him even more. If the child prefers not to use the second language with the parents, this choice must be respected,
Make students forget their difficulties
A big challenge of bilingual education is to make students deal well with their difficulties and that they avoid thinking about the error and the challenges of learning in a new language because these thoughts make difficult good learning.
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How parents can participate
It is interesting that they motivate their children not to focus on the difficulties they feel in relation to the language and, mainly, stop thinking that it is difficult or boring. It is necessary to show them the positive side of the error because by wandering we seek to succeed and we avoid the same faults in other opportunities. In addition, parents can stimulate conversation within the home, ask for translations, assist in daily activities and, to make their children more comfortable during classes, parents can tell their own difficulties and insecurities when they learn A little of the foreign language or other disciplines that they managed to reach or not, is valid for their learning.
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Source of information
- https://giphy.com/gifs/season-7-the-simpsons-7x9-3orif4RenixmCbYHKw
- http://clilandthings.com/2016/06/30/1063/
- http://news.berkeley.edu/2016/08/25/igs-poll-finds-voters-prioritize-learning-english-and-speaking-multiple-languages/
Posted from my blog with SteemPress : http://ismaelugas.vornix.blog/2018/10/11/bilingual-education-how-does-it-contribute-to-the-childs-development-parte-iii/