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Preschool English Lessons

Children undergo the best language learning before they reach school age.

Learners are most effective at understanding and using new sounds and proper pronunciation when they are young. Young brains are receptive and wanting to learn new sounds and patterns.

Additionally, school has not yet placed strong emphasis on math and science when children are young, so they have both the opportunity and the energy to pick up language through play. Language teaching at this age can be unstructured. At preschool age, children have little self-awareness, so they use new languages freely without any concern.

Accordingly, preschool represents the best opportunity for a child to start learning formal English. Teaching oral production and listening comes first among the linguistic abilities at this point. Afterwards, children can concentrate on recognizing the alphabet. It is sequential for children to colour the letters of the alphabet afterward. Writing should be delayed further: Preschoolers need only use their pencils to experiment with writing on either big papers or on white/black boards. Later in the preschool years, children should be invited to write the letters of the alphabet.

Accordingly, the English competencies that should be taught at preschool are:

Oral (listening, speaking, vocabulary)

Learning about the alphabet and the ability to hear and separate speech sounds needs to be taught at this time.

Writing means the child can control a pencil and form basic shapes while also writing the alphabet letters.