for new ESL learners, what would be a good sequence of topics to start with.ABC’s, numbers, etc?
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I’m working with pre-school-aged children in Japan, who have never studied english. My theory is to start off with the basics…ABCs, next, numbers, colors, etc. Any thoughts? Does anyone know where I can can find documentation?
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I’m working with pre-school-aged children in Japan, who have never studied english. My theory is to start off with the basics…ABCs, next, numbers, colors, etc. Any thoughts? Does anyone know where I can can find documentation?
September 26th, 2009 at 8:49 am
You may want to start with simple words like: hello, goodbye, good morning, etc.
ABCs are very abstract with little meaning. English speaking preschoolers learn their ABCs because they already know the language and can start associating the sounds to the letters. With Japanese preschoolers, they have no background knowledge in English words so the alphabet has no meaning to them.
When an English speaking person learns Japanese for the first time, we are taught Japanese words and eventually taught the Kanji to relate to the words.
You could start with colors and numbers since this can be related to what they already know in Japanese. Five0