Should parents learn English with children?

The interaction between ESL teachers and ESL learners in classrooms is considered as an important key that helps promote ESL learners’ English capacity. However, parents can also help children in English language development by learning the second language together with them.

Not all children are confident enough to study a second language like English by themselves; therefore, that parents make all efforts to learn English with children will give children a big encouragement. Concretely, children can ask parents what they are unclear about the English language or express directly how much they feel about learning English.
Similarly, learning English with children is also an effective way to help parents understand more about their kids and help them when necessary. It is possible for parents to answer these questions: “How do children think about English?”, “Do they really love learning English”, “What are difficulties children have to cope with?”, and “What do children need to learn English better?”.
Some parent may be not confident enough to learn English with children due to their diffidence caused by the poor English knowledge. However, this post will give all parents very simple suggestions that can be applied easily to support children’ English language learning:
  1. Listening unconsciously (listening without focusing or concentrating, or listening and doing other tasks together)
***Listen regularly every day 2 times per day.***
- In the morning: When parents are about wake kids up, parents can turn on the English sound or music for children to listen during personal hygiene and breakfast time.
- In the evening: Before going to bed, children can listen while lying in bed or while playing some games (like a puzzle, seahorses) with parents.
  1. Watching videos unconsciously
Every day, parents can spend a short time on watching a kind of English videos of English cartoons and songs with their children and discuss about the content of the video together.
  1. Playing teacher- acting game
Children will act as teachers and parents pretend that they do not know any things related to English. Children teach parents how to read every words and sentences. Children read out loudly and parents must follow.
  1. Learning through songs
Parents can turn on some programs of teaching songs on Television or buy some English songs discs with lyric from the bookstore or supermarket, then learn to sing the song with kids. It will be more creative and funny if parents can make a small singing contest and compete with children!
  1. Acting game
Parents and children in turn act as characters in an English cartoon film or story to practice the conversations then.
To sum up, learning English with children not only supports for children learning process but also create a meaningful experience time for parents. The most important factor is that parents should be patient enough and always willing to spend time with them.
There are still a large numbers of easy tips that parents can apply to learn English with children and these websites can be used for references.
By Bui Chi & Thanh Huong

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