1. Start little by little you shouldn’t expect too much, children might resist sudden changing of language.
2. Children learn by doing and any activity that uses one or more of their five senses enhance learning.
3. Initially if it wasn’t understandable by the children you can help them understand by translating, but the goal is to stop doing this little by little. Before translating you can help them understand your mean by gesture, posture, pictures and playing a role.
Studies indicate that pointing to an object helps children better understand and learn the meaning of new words .researchers believe that pointing to an objects helps a young child channel his/her attention and focus more intensely on what you are talking about.
4. Help children to ask their questions in English, if they couldn’t do it at all, do help them word by word; but don’t answer them in your own language.
5. Give context for the words that you use.
6. Try not to overwhelm children – a couple of new words at a time is fine.
7. Subjects of your discussion should be about the things that children are very interested in; it makes the class as active as possible.
8. In the first days they might just play a role as a listener but step by step it will change, try to make them as active as possible.
9. Don’t correct the child’s mistake while she/he is talking. Try to correct the mistakes indirectly.
10. Be a good listener.
11. If a child stuck on a word and you know what she wants to say, do go ahead and supply the word to help her along. If she says: “I want a,a,a….” you can say: “ a new sheet ?”
12. As a teacher you should replace word like “thing” with the appropriate word. Then ask all the class to repeat the sentence or the phrase.
13. Even if the child is not so fluent in English to reply quickly to you, that’s no problem; studies show that children who hear a lot of elaborate vocabulary will also learn those words.
14. Read simple story books, it is an effective way to improve children lexicon. Ask parents to read 1 simple story every night for the child.
15. Want parents to provide activities like simple dialogue games for the child.
16. Hold a program that contains every day conversation, it is the best way for a child.
