How To Teach English To Tagalog

By Donna Peterson


Language is important for everyone as it enables the communication of ideas and information. For people who have grown up learning a specific language commonly termed as their home language, they may not be able to easily communicate with people from other countries or regions. This thus brings the need to tactics to Teach English To Tagalog people in the Philippine.

For many teachers, they think that kids who are more familiar with their home language and may have never come across another language are likely to fail or have a slow learning process with the new language. Teachers should note that this is not true as in most cases, such kids tend to perform more better than those who may have been considered skilled in the language.

The teachers should avoid the mentality of considering the slow progress learners as those in need of more attention but instead consider them as students who are likely to produce unexpected good results in future. Such kids will often surprise their teachers when they suddenly increase their performance if they are trained adequately.

Having the kids work together in pairs is an easy and efficient way of improving understanding for the slow kids without making them feel discouraged. While in their pairs, each child will have a word, letter or anything involving the language that they should teach to their partner. The other partner will do the same. This promotes learning by enabling them to teach others as well as practice what they learn.

Some children also work best when they are on their own. Allowing the kids to have some time on their own to do some studies can help you identify how best they make progress as well as their learning progress. Providing the children with books which they are to evaluate and present the results the next day is among the best ways of promoting self reading.

Learning tends to be easier for children if it is interesting. With this concept in mind, teachers should consider using interesting ways example media to keep their learners interested. A common way of helping them learn a new language is through using a movie in the language being trained then allowing the learners to watch the movie and translate its meaning afterwards.

Another essential item to promote learning of a new language is a dictionary. The dictionary has a list of words with their meanings to promote understanding of the words. Some will even have the word translated into different languages as well. The dictionaries can also be a software not a book. The software dictionaries will often also help improve pronunciations.

Language is very important in allowing efficient communication. Language barriers between people may affect their way of interacting thus it is advisable to have a common language that most people are likely to know so as to avoid language barriers on visiting foreign countries. Language is important for any form of communication as the receiver and sender should both be able to understand the message being transmitted. A common language is thus the best way of enabling communications.




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