Keys for Teaching Children English.docVIP

Keys for Teaching Children English 　　Abstract: We use many ways in our bilingual kindergarten program and it has been achieved a lot in our children English teaching. I would like to present some of them in this article and let other people benefit from them. 　　Key words: keys ; teaching ; children English 　　In our bilingual kindergarten program, we identify twenty competencies that a teacher needs to demonstrate to effectively teach a second language to young children. Successful teachers demonstrate these competencies continuously and spontaneously in their interaction with the children during each play episode. Here I will present some keys for children English teaching. 　　1 Facilitating understanding 　　For children who have little or no experience with English, no words or structures have any meaning until their sounds become consistent with a particular context or experience that can distinguish it from the whole milieu of meaningless sounds. Teachers must remember that they understand what they are saying to the children, their words are only sounds until they have meaning for the children. 　　When most children enter a bilingual kindergarten program, they are not only afraid of all the new children and new surroundings of the class, but even more afraid of the new sound system being produced by all the people around. From the beginning, most children are hesitant to make an attempt to enter this sound system. They may not understand what is going on, they may be afraid to make mistakes, they may be afraid to speak to someone unfamiliar to them, or they may just not be interested in making any effort. All of these reactions are natural. A fun activity will usually be enough to get all the children involved, and also serves as a first step to loosen up nervous children, but for many children a fun activity alone is not enough to get them speaking. Teachers must make additional efforts to encourage the children to speak and to create an atmosphere in which