Techniques for Learning bilingual/Multilanguage skilled children
Techniques for Raising
Multilingual or Bilingual Juveniles
How you
can help your children to learn more than one
language maydepend where and how much of the language or languages your child hears and uses . For example, your
child may hear and practice language more from parents, father/mother,
family members or friends at home or your children may
only hear and use the language in certain situations.
Here are two models to help your
child’s language development
1. Traditional language as home language
If you use a traditional language in
your home you should try to get your self (father and mother) or your family
members to speak that language with your child as much as possible.
For example you may have moved to
London from Sri Lanka but at home you may speak Tamil/Sinhala to your child
which is your traditional language. But your child goes to school and
speaks English there and there is an environment to speak to learn a lot in
other language.
2. Increasing children's involvement in outdoor activities
can promote language acquisition. For example, children's clubs, youth
clubs, child resource centers, digital learning hubs.
Another example is a child living in a
hearing or non-verbal environment where there is an opportunity to become
bilingual. Learning sign language from non-speaking parents in the family/hearing
disability of parent and learning another language outside of the children experiences
are lead to get fluent than sign language is a good example he situation and opportunities
determines the language skills.
So how you can practice your child's language proficiency depends on the time, no of words, and occasion of language you speak with your child within the family and socialization with the outside environment.
Techniques for Raising Multilingual or
Bilingual Proficient Children
· Read a story or sing a song in your traditional language
as well as in English or Sinhala as much as possible and create an opportunity
to learn the words with the basic words you know.
· Play small games in a English/sinhala language as well as
playing games in your traditional language or encourage your children to play
by yourself.
For example: Bingo game you and your children write 10 words (English or Sinhala) on a
piece of paper or print it out and cut it into pieces and both keep them evenly
spaced and count the time for one minute. Whoever can say the most words in one
minute can say Bingo out loud and get a prize (the prize is a snack of their
choice or (may be a small educational kit/any)
· Most importantly, set aside a specific place for your
children at home exclusively for learning and create a learning corner ( Learning corner
) with worksheets (written or printed cards with words, materials and equipment) in which display your traditional language and English/sinhala
language worksheets exclusively at the height of the children's
eyes. Memorize them over and over again as much as possible.
· Similarly, when they talk to their friends and relatives,
make it a habit of greeting , thanking and introducing themself in a English/sinhala languages
· Prepare to do more language-intensive activities at
public events and competitions and if possible, videotape and replay what they
have learned
· Listening and reading are important for language
acquisition, so encourage small, simple reading passages ( newspapers
are very important for language acquisition) and listening is most important
for listening to songs , TV news, clips,
etc. Increases fluency and error-free pronunciation.)
· Most importantly, keep a trilingual dictionary handy to know the meaning of unknown words and to know
synonyms. Everyone should remember that in this era where learning activities
are being transformed into digital, language proficiency, especially the international
language of English, is essential.
To be continued
........................
creation
with love
V. Kugathasan
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