The STEPS TO SUCCESS STARTING FROM PRESCHOOL
Abstract
The article illuminates the problems of preschool education, particularly foreign language teaching. The author investigates thecircumstances and reasons of the problems and, accordingly, she puts forward some practical suggestions about solving them and overcoming the obstacles. Meanwhile, as preparing competent and intelligent future citizens must also be on the scope of attention of our pedagogues, the article underlines the need of active learning instructional strategies to be used in various educational institutions. The author suggests startingit from the early age possible and plant the rewarding seeds of education from the preschool age.
A preschool English course supposes a distinctly organized procedure, which should meet the educational, cultural and practical aims of teaching at the same time. The teachers should help children to reveal their abilities, create an atmosphere of mutual understanding involving them in the process of language learning. Only by establishing pedagogical proper conditions teachers can guarantee success of the preschool English course. Carefully designed and planned instructional strategies will surely help the learners to achieve a wild range of powerful learning outcomes. Hence, the article suggests some approaches to stimulate students’ active engagement and enhance learning.
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