Our methodology for language courses for kids

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Our language courses for young learners take place in small groups with a maximum of 5 children, they are interactive and appeal to all the senses. They encourage the intrinsic, innate curiosity to discover and learn by focusing on play.

The content of the language courses varies and is adjusted to the needs, abilities and learning goals of the different age groups. The little ones do handicrafts, sing, read stories, the older ones write their own stories or prepare presentations on a topic that is exciting for them. All in the target language and with the support of the best didactic materials.

Our methodology is based on the following 4 principles:

• Young children learn best through play: Our language lessons for preschoolers are therefore play-based, highly varied and interactive. Good teaching awakens and strengthens children’s natural enthusiasm and curiosity. Simply quizzing them on vocabulary is of no use here. The desire to participate in play will automatically entice children to develop their language skills.

• Children learn with all their senses: Language lessons for preschoolers should appeal to as many different senses as possible, because children experience their entire living environment through their senses. This is also the case in the classroom: seeing, e.g., through books, pictures, bright colors and materials; hearing, e.g., through singing, instruments, storytelling; feeling, e.g., a soft blanket, a hard rock; smelling, e.g., smelly pillows; and tasting, e.g., during a snack or picnic.

• Children need movement: Good language instruction for children includes as many opportunities for movement as possible, because the connection between the development of language and motor skills is scientifically well established! Movement is, of course, particularly suitable for demonstrating movements (e.g., sitting, standing, walking, hopping). But other topics can also be illustrated by movement and thus be better internalized. For example, for adjectives: to represent “small” (squat down and tuck your head in) and “big” (stand up and stretch your arms and legs), to name just a few examples.

• We do everything we can to make the first contact with a new language positive, so that the joy of language learning is encouraged. Everything that children enjoy, that makes them curious, that inspires them to act, that they can and want to experience with their senses, all this is suitable for effective language teaching.

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