Meshcheryakova's "English for Children"

Meshcheryakova Valeriya Nikolaevna is the authora unique course I love English for teaching English to children between the ages of two to ten. This method is fundamentally different from that given in modern general education schools. The peculiarity is that the training takes place through various games with the greatest possible immersion in the language environment, where the perception of information by ear, listening, performs one of the most important functions in the learning process.

Effectively and progressively

Children are engaged in this program with a specialinterest and desire because they sing songs in the classroom, read poems, play the scenes in roles and completely "lose" the whole lesson. Valeriy Meshcheryakova's methodology provides an easy perception of new information by children in class. Thoughtful approach to homework: small pupils (and their parents) need to listen to audio lessons every day from ten to fifteen minutes. Audio texts are recorded by native speakers, so they allow you to form the correct pronunciation among students. All materials of this technique work on the accumulation of a significant passive vocabulary and on the development of linguistic flair.

An important difference of this teaching methodologyEnglish from what the school gives is, first, that it is not the language itself that is studied and comprehended, but speech itself. Secondly, training begins with listening and speaking in the very first classes without learning rules or vocabulary.

Another unusual feature of this technique -The absence of corrections in the lessons of speech errors of children on the part of the teacher. Instead, a multiple repetition of information blocks is introduced to develop the correct version of speech. This is done to prevent the emergence of psychological and language barriers.

Technique Meshcheryakova "English for Children": levels of study

The method is suitable for teaching children in the ageperiod from two (three) to nine (ten) years and is interesting and quite effective. It must be said that learning leads to real and successful results.

Method Meshcheryakova I love English consists of several sequential and interrelated in the study and development of steps:

• Zero stage, mainly built on listening and memorizing, - I can sing.
• The first step, improving listening and forming English speech, - I can speak.
• The second step, improving previousreceived skills and teaching reading, - I can read. The comprehension of reading occurs by a unique technique of flowering on the basis of previously studied material, as a result of which this process is mastered with ease.
• The third step, improving all previous skills and teaching letters - I can write.
• The fourth step - I can analyze - teaches you to analyze speech when it is formed.

Some stages, the main, will be analyzed in great detail in order to understand what Valeria Meshcheryakova's technique is.

Listening

The very first and introductory for those children who studylanguage from the very beginning, is the zero step I can sing. Assimilation and study pass through singing, namely - through the patterned repetition and memorization of phrases. This happens even without an initial understanding of the translation of words. The very understanding takes place in the background. The child learns to understand the meaning of foreign speech unconsciously (passively) with frequent and regular listening to audio lessons. And active learning of the language is achieved already in full-time employment with the teacher, which the accumulated "passive" stock of words translates into the category of "active". In this age period, a person can easily master the language (s) in a similar way, that is, with the right approach and organized training.

Methods of teaching English Meshcheryakovadetermines the purpose of this stage - the development and perception of the child by ear. Lessons are held with children in musical and game forms. The material of the technique are texts with colorful, vivid illustrations and recorded songs performed by native speakers.

English by the technique of Meshcheryakovaprovides assistance and parental involvement in the learning process. Their actions are very important. Adults need to ensure children's daily access to listening to audio recordings. What should I pay attention to (to parents and teachers involved in this system)? At this stage, the phonetic errors that the child makes because of the immature speech apparatus are not corrected explicitly and clearly for the child by the adult. Mentors in this case try to repeat the correctly defined sounds or words as often as possible in order to memorize the only correct variant for children. When speaking, gestures and facial expressions are used to maximize understanding of speech by the child's consciousness.

Formation of speech

The next step is the first and basic - I canspeak, since the formation of oral speech - this is one of the main tasks in comprehending the language. At this stage the child begins to use in the construction of his speech already memorized and "imprinted" in consciousness (in the previous stage through repeated repetition and listening) phrases, words, cliches.

Similarly, the teacher / parent conductsoccupation in the form of a game, and the child builds his speech more or less meaningfully. The technique of Meshcheryakova ensures the attainment of understanding by children already at this stage due to well thought-out and prepared materials and the correct presentation of information:

• Visual support to audio recordings in the form of synthesisbooks and coloring contains an illustrated picture of the lesson on which the child performs the necessary tasks. The main task of the small pupil passing through the training is to collect these filled coloring sheets from the lesson to the lesson in order to collect the whole book.
• Language information blocks on the diskrepeated many times for the purpose of unconscious and involuntary memorization. The teacher in the classroom already deliberately recreates the situations in which these structures are used and fixed.
• Simple and timely tracking of assimilationknowledge by the child. Every fourth lesson is a control, in which the teacher evaluates the "completed" tasks and the "minuses" to complete the task, so that the child understands how successful he is in the performance of certain tasks.
• It must be said that the audio lessons themselves are maximallythought over the content and do not overload the child's mind and attention. One lesson lasts for ten to fifteen minutes. Throughout the week the child listens to a certain lesson from once. But the more, the better. Listening is possible even under conditions of incomplete concentration, and in the background, as if by the way. And before the control lesson, he works with assignments in his coloring book for a maximum of fifteen minutes.
• I should say a few words about motivation. Meshcheryakova's method provides for an original assessment and approval by the teacher of the correct performance of the tasks by the student through the drawn pictures (in the form of hearts and flowers). The incentive system is thought out: diplomas for excellent success have been developed. Also, a child can receive a gift from the person of the fairy-tale hero, with whom he dealt in the performance of assignments for the lesson learned.

Question of Priority

Sometimes it happens that the method of teachingMeshcheryakova is not the first method to which parents and children have been working and working. In other words, they already have some information base. But there is also a desire (or necessity) to continue learning the language for another, for example, more effective system of I love English. The English language, according to Meshcheryakova's methodology, involves learning and mastering knowledge and skills necessarily in a linear, sequential and step-by-step manner (0, 1, 2, 3, 4). However, you can continue to apply the knowledge already available and start learning from the level I can speak with the only and necessary condition - listening to audio lessons daily.

Learning to read

The stage I can read shapes the child's skillscorrect reading without memorizing and memorizing various innumerable rules for pronouncing certain letters or letter combinations. The technique of Meshcheryakova ("English for Children") is a lightweight and unique technique of flowering.

Children and teachers work on a benefit in whichall words, phrases and texts are marked with certain colors and different font. In the process of studying, children easily understand and then read these "markers". There is no any linguistic or semantic distortion with such reading. The child in the process sees the correct graphic spelling of the word, but at the same time he allocates by means of color the corresponding sound-letter pronunciation without confusion with transcription. This technique allows you to immediately begin to read correctly to both children and parents who do not know English, but provide control over the performance of tasks.

Meshcheryakova's method does not include studyingat this stage of the alphabet. This is considered inexpedient and untimely: any language unit is introduced when it is necessary. It is explained by the fact that the names of letters not only do not help, but often prevent children from learning to read correctly and freely in English. Why can knowledge of the alphabet be useful? As a rule, for correct spelling and for finding new language units in the dictionary. A dictionary even at this stage (to understand the meaning of the word) is not needed.

Work on the lesson on the benefit is carried out inverbal expression when the teacher fixes certain moments and exercises on the board. As a homework, the child performs written exercises in the class, and also works independently with additional exercises to consolidate the material studied. It should be emphasized that the wording of the homework is given in the manual in Russian in order to fully understand by all participants in the learning process (pupils and their parents) what needs to be done. This is intentionally created for functionality, because reading words and texts in English is only now comprehended and comprehended at this stage (I can read).

Learning in the game

English in Meshcheryakova's technique is taught ingame form. Lessons are built in the form of regularly and often changing games. This allows to make the learning process interesting and fascinating, since the child's main activity in comprehending the world around him occurs directly through games. Curiosity and excitement create harmonious conditions for memorization, repetition, assimilation and consolidation of information. Positive children's emotions and enthusiasm intensify their mental processes of cognition as a result of development. In addition, the game is some kind of imaginary and artificially created situation, motivating to use the knowledge at the right time. The teacher's task is to create the necessary conditions for the development of English speech and the need to use the material.

The game is the engine of the development process. Being an excellent learning tool and sharpening the child's thinking activity, she makes the lesson interesting and attractive.

Parent role

Meshcheryakova's technique implies, as it was alreadysaid earlier, regular and daily listening to children audio lessons (recorded by native speakers). To successfully master the language, you need an appropriate environment, and audio recordings are a kind of similar environment. The regularity of listening to these lessons (short in time) ensures success in mastering this technique. Moreover, the dependence of learning outcomes on the regularity of home listening is linear. In other words, the more a child listens to an audio lesson, the more he understands it. The more understandable, the more he likes him. The more he likes him, the more he listens to it again with great pleasure and goes to the English class. And vice versa.

It will be great if parents help theirChad in creating some kind of ritual for listening to lessons (for example, before going to bed in bed or on the way to school / from school). The creation of some additional motivation on the part of parents would also contribute to a more effective learning of a foreign language.

Listening to this audio is inwhole occupation interesting and exciting, they like children. However, there are a couple of mistakes that parents allow, as a result of which their child will want to give up listening to audio lessons and classes in English:

1. Direct commands to replace the action: "Instead of watching cartoons, better go and study English." This is a very rude and tactless impact on the child's mind and psyche. Most often this causes an internal protest and an unwillingness to further develop in this direction. In its way, this is a kind of negative program that the parent created in the subconscious of his child.
2. Rare and irregular (or nonexistent)listening to audio lessons. In the private lessons with the teacher, children who do not listen to the lessons at home or do it seldom become difficult. Any difficulties in the child cause a loss of interest in the studies.

The Role of the Teacher

The teacher at the lesson is the key figure of the successfuland effective learning process. It is not enough to know the material and the foreign language. You need to have a lot of qualities. If you take the age limit of children by this method, then the teacher must be an orator, a psychologist, an actor, and a grassroots entertainer, so that the process of cognition is as successful and useful as possible. In addition, the teacher is a person who loves and understands children, who can speak with them in one language, but at the same time communicating with them and teaching them another, a foreign language. That's how interesting and difficult it all is! To the teacher who conducts lessons accessible, with love and interest, children happily go to classes and master the material without much difficulty, it happens automatically. A lot depends on the teacher!

Needless to say, the teacher must possessdifferent methods and techniques of teaching their subject. With respect to our theme all this wonderful designed and thought out the author of this course program, Meshcheryakov VN technique is unique and differs in many respects from the school teaching the course. Accordingly, there are many nuances that must not only know the teacher, but also fully master all the subtleties. For this purpose there is a separate center developed by Valeria Nikolaevna teacher training program, which professionally develops and certified explains how to conduct classes to teach English properly by Meshcheriakova method.

Reviews from teachers you can find the mostvarious. Someone is delighted with this course - such teachers go to special programs directly to the author-trainer, learn the teaching methods themselves, and then teach their students about this program. Perhaps, in the course of their studies, they somehow supplement their lessons, because without this you can not do. There are those who passed the training according to the methodical program, but remained it is not satisfied for certain reasons (perhaps the teacher himself is not so personally personally internally free in the lesson to be a creator and an active enchanter and an engine in the process of learning and cognition).

But there are also those who got acquainted with the benefitsMeshcheryakova, but did not pass professional courses. Many of the subtleties of the process may not be fully understood or not visible at all. However, such an experienced teacher and personal opinion have such teachers and, I must say, express them in a rather sharp form. Of course, in this case, the method of Meshcheryakova, which the man does not understand, will not cause the teachers' reviews to be the most flattering. However, such opinions are not directly related to the content of the teaching methodology, rather, they will say more about the incompetence of the teacher in the language program Meshcheryakova. It is worth noting that not all teachers can afford to undergo specialized training courses in this methodology due to the high cost of the program and the materials themselves.

Methodology of Valery Meshcheryakova: feedback from students and parents

Pupils and parents involved in thislanguage course, note notable and tangible results - this is a deep interest in the topic and relatively easy use of the studied material by children in the gaming environment. We can assume that this is effective and effective author's methodology (Meshcheryakova). "English for children" reviews cause children to be happy (the desire to go to school and carry out assignments - important indicators), parents - satisfactory-positive (as children make progress in learning), teachers working for this program are quite inspired. Such conclusions can be made if you look at the official site of the author of this course video calls on a technique that are well-founded. In addition, a lot of information about its technology is provided by Valeria Nikolayevna Meshcheryakova herself. The method of teaching English is really interesting and unusual. And its successful testing on children's groups lasts for more than ten years, as a result of these activities, students begin to speak English and understand the interlocutor.