Tips On 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.

Trainers who are in charge of teaching the new language are often scared that their students may find it hard t grasp the new language especially the children. They need to realize that this is not true as the students often kids will surprise you with better performance as compared to those who had an idea of the new language. They should thus be viewed as children to improve with time.

Teachers will tend to form close relationships and follow up closely on the students that show a low progress. This should be avoided as rather than helping the learner it tends to make them feel inadequate which result in poorer grades. Allowing the kid to learn from the others would be more convenient. Following up with the kid should also not be done such that everyone realizes that one of them is given extra attention due to poor performance.

Rather than working with children who have not made much improvement in the learning process, teachers can alternatively group the children in pairs or groups. For each child, they will then be assigned a topic, word or alphabet they are to teach to the others in the group about. Each of the other children will do the same in their groups thus promoting learning through teaching each other.

It is also important to allow the children to work on their own. To do this, you can give them an assignment of reading a book and presenting what they learned from it to the other children the next day. This helps improve their vocabulary, presentation skills and self esteem. Children can highly improve their performance through allowing themselves to study on their own.

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.

Communication is achieved only if the sender and receiver of the information are able to understand what the other party is saying. Lack of understanding for either parties due to the use of different languages thus means that there is a language barrier between them. Such barriers can affect progress on a high level thus a common language is needed.




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