Early foreign language learning has a positive effect on the development of attention, memory, thinking, general speech development of the child and the assimilation of the native language.
There is a close relationship between culture and language. In the language of hidden values and outlook on the world of native speakers. Language influences the formation of thought. Thus, the study of foreign languages contributes to a deeper acquaintance with other cultures, understanding of cultural differences, acceptance of differences in the perception of the world - the development of tolerance, as the traits necessary to form a harmonious whole person, in a modern multicultural society.
Communication is one of the most important factors in a child's mental development. You must take this into account when organizing activities with the child. Language development occurs most rapidly at an early age. Each age period of a child's development corresponds to the dominant activity. If you include language learning in the process of leading the activities of the child, the formation of speech, language development and communication will occur with much greater success.
Formation of speech most actively occurs in the preschool child. On this topic was written dozen researches and essays. The assimilation of the native language of children going free and easy, natural way children learn to speak, regardless of whether they specifically teach by adults or not. That preschool age (from 0 to 6 years) is a sensitive period of development of speech, and it begins during fetal development of the child. Therefore, if a child raised in a bilingual family and at the same time can hear two languages , then he naturally mastered two languages.
Learning a foreign language at a time when the child is still not fully mastered the native language, is held by the same mechanism as the assimilation of the native language, and the level of development of a second language will not yield to the first language level.
Sensitive periods - the time of greatest sensitivity, child susceptibility to a particular kind of activity, so the preschool childhood - one of the most suitable periods for learning foreign languages.
Unchanged remains the fact that the brain activity of three year old child in three and a half times higher than that of the adult human brain. The child's brain retains the increased functionality and activity during the first 10 years of life.
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