Bilingual education is a very popular early language education form in recent years. Many parents start to create a bilingual environment at the early stage of their children's language learning: speaking English picture books, listening to English songs and watching English cartoons. When the children are older, we will also find them English early education classes and bilingual kindergartens ... for fear that the children will fall behind in the early education process.
What are the benefits of bilingual education for children? 1. It contributes to the development of intelligence. Studies have proved that children who receive bilingual education generally have higher scores in intelligence tests, because children who receive bilingual education often have to face the problem of coordination between languages, so their thinking ability is highly developed. Moreover, children who receive bilingual education have strong abstract thinking ability and can distinguish which information is related to the problem and which information is not.
The research on all aspects of children's language development shows that 3-6 years old is the best time for language learning. Children actively learn languages from birth and can receive several language signals at the same time. Combined with bilingual teaching activities in kindergarten, I found that children can learn to use a second language freely while using their mother tongue skillfully.
How to carry out bilingual education for babies;
Listening to music to learn a foreign language, through nursery rhymes full of relaxed melody, can correct children's intonation, increase children's vocabulary and happily integrate into foreign language learning. The rhythm of music can not only make children feel happy and happy, but also deepen his memory.
If the family environment is originally bilingual, you can be bilingual from novels without underestimating the potential of children; If the family language environment is limited, there is no condition to go to bilingual kindergarten, and there is no need to sacrifice children's happy childhood to learn foreign languages, and the learning effect of rote learning is not ideal. Many people learn to speak a fluent foreign language when they grow up!