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.

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.

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 students tend to learn easily when they are left to work on their own. Teachers are thus encouraged to also give the children some time to learn by themselves. This can be achieved through giving them some books to analyze on their own and present their views the next day. Such tactics will also help teachers examine the level of understanding of a learner.

The various forms of media can also be applied to train the children and make the training sessions more interesting. One of the technology methods they can use is through presenting them movies in the language that they are required to learn. The video can have subtitles or not to aid understanding depending on the teacher. Movies offer an interesting opportunity to understand languages.

Dictionaries are also very common when trying to teach new languages. They enable the learners to find new words, know their meanings, use them in sentences and also know the word in another language if the dictionary also contains another language. Other than being a book, the dictionary can also be a software that also additionally aids learners to learn how to pronounce.

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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