Question

Given your expertise in language development, at this point of the semester, what techniques or behaviors would you advise parents to use to help improve their child's language skills? What are some of the best methods to teach a child two languages?

Answer 1

what techniques or behaviors would you advise parents to use to help improve their child's language skills?

Some of the best techniques to improve the language of a person are:

• To keep talking more and more With the child
• To continuously ask the child to indulge into reading
• It would be helpful to keep repeating certain words
• It would not be correct if the child would not be corrected again and again
• There should be use of visuals so as reinforce the words that have been spoken . Associating words with imagery can help better language acquisition
• It would also help if idioms are used less often, and whenever used, should be explained well.
• Also, it is important for the teacher to be enthusiastic and should be having lower levels of anxiety

What are some of the best methods to teach a child two languages?

Some of the best methods of second language acquisition are:

• In order to develop a second language there requires to be planning, that would be integrated along with the meta cognitive strategies such as to form an Analysis as well as reasoning.
• The child should be allowed to make guesses and make mistakes.
• Communicative strategies such as out of classroom strategies, that include watching the native speakers or listening the native speakers.
• The motivation in these learners has to be much greater.
• Reading articles.
• Visual teaching, methods in the form of video learning
• Music in foreign language along with noting down unknown words.
• It would help if the child is asked to note down words that he has learnt in both the languages and only after he has learnt one language properly, there should be introduction of another language introduction, so that the child doesn’t get confused.