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A Good Language Foundation
June 1, 2012
Since fear is mostly about ignorance, the best part is that it's as temporary as you choose.
-Christine Comaford
"My mother was born in Laredo, Texas, as a U.S. citizen. After the untimely death of her mother, she and her three siblings, all under six years old, were sent to Mexico for a few years to be raised by their aunts. When their father remarried and they returned to the United States, the children were immersed in primarily English classrooms, with a generous sprinkling of Spanish to help them along. All four learned English almost immediately, and the two oldest were valedictorian and salutatorian of their classes.
"This is not so unusual. We have countless examples of Vietnamese youths who came to the United States in the 1960s, not knowing a word of English, only to graduate from school at the top of their class a few years later.
"Learning a second language is not that difficult, especially if there is a strong foundation in a home language. The process is much the same as with the first language: listening, speaking, then reading, and finally writing the language. Once you understand the meaning of a word or concept in your home language, learning a new word for the same thing is easy."
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Grammangal
Thane, Maharashtra, India
06/01/2012 11:46 pm
Cheers to Rebeca! In this matter I would like to share my experiences. I co-ordinate a project of our company which is known as 'Dwibhasha Samruddhi Prakalpa' which means 'strengthening both the languages' i.e the mother tongue as well as English which is suppose to be the second language everywhere in my country. This focuses on enhancing the skills of young children to be excellent in both the languages simultaneously.We have an effective teacher training module for this program & the whole content is developed time to time with the feedback of the results. Here we give lots of experiences with games & exercises in listening, speaking. reading & writing, to children right from the preschool. This project of ours caters to even the schools in rural corners of the state. It is seen that the children become so fluent & apply correct grammar while speaking & this is only because they are very good in their mother tongue which is their first language. They have come out with excellent results in the state scholarship exams & can now communicate effectively in English.