ViBesides learning activities with educational purposes, educating children through caring by talking, playing with them, showing affection, and providing them with a safe and encouraging learning environment is extremely important.
Talking with children about a particular topic encourages them to share ideas, express their feelings and thoughts, and share new knowledge with children naturally and in a friendly way.
In addition, interactions and communication with children in the early stages of life play an essential role in building children’s self-confidence, beliefs in their values and capabilities, and building relationships with the community.
Besides literacy lessons and phonemic awareness, how do WIS teachers always encourage children to speak and support them in enhancing communication abilities and self-confidence?
- Before and/or after lessons, WIS teachers always ask questions to arouse the children’s inner curiosity, activate their background knowledge and encourage them to express their opinions and share personal feelings through inquiries about their individual experiences.
- Assist the children in preparing for presentations related to current learning topics. Children can share what they have learned through their language, which helps them acquire knowledge profoundly.
- Let children participate in storytelling and role-playing in learned stories, daily communication situations, or created contexts to help children practice problem-solving and communicative language.
- The children acquire and practice language by interacting with teachers daily.
- Especially for toddlers, using the “serve and return” approach, the teachers will focus on talking to children using gestures and emotional and facial expressions to create and enhance children’s interest in interaction. Open-ended questions are also made full use. They help encourage the children to talk because they leave a space for the children to develop a conversation with the teachers.
Studying at WIS always focuses on two-way interaction and communication between the children and teachers. WIS always aims to build our children to become global citizens with well-develop skills and self-confidence in communication and self-expression, which are vital factors of being the citizens of tomorrow.
Visit and allow your child to participate in studying at WIS for the best learning opportunities in the most optimal foreign language development environment.
