Bringing it home
How parents can support children's language learning

Anne Farren & Richard Smith

Many parents are keen to give their child a headstart in a foreign language and more and more children now have the opportunity to learn a language at primary school, in a language club, or through private tuition. These experiences can be made even more successful, if reinforced at home. But parents often ask:

• What is the best way to help my child learn a new language?
• What books and other materials can we use?
• How can we use our holiday to help language learning?
• What games, rhymes and songs would be suitable?

Bringing it home provides an authoritative source of advice on all these questions. It presents a host of simple activities that can easily be incorporated into daily life, to boost children's confidence and build on what they are learning in the classroom. The ideas are designed to be enjoyable for children and parents alike – whatever their level in the language.

Teachers will find the advice invaluable for passing on to parents at information evenings – and will no doubt want to adapt many of the activities for classroom use.

Contents

Part 1: Language teaching in primary schools today
Introduction | Who is learning a language in primary school? | Why learn a foreign language in primary school? | What is being taught? | How are foreign languages taught in primary schools?

Part2: Practical activities to do with your child
Helping your child get started | Rhymes, songs and poems | Using games | Using books and other published material | Using the Internet | In town (at home and abroad) | Through the year | Key points

2003 | 80pp | ISBN-13: 978-1-904243-19-9 | ISBN-10: 1-904243-19-3 | £12 | Order this title online

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