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Parents are considered the first teachers in a person’s life. They teach the first words we speak and so many other things in life. They can be the most helpful people to make their children learn English. Almost all parents worldwide want their children to learn English from a young age. They understand the importance of proficiency in speaking English will help their children get ahead in a globalized world where the English is considered a globalized language. The most important contribution of parents in their children’s success is to encourage them and show lots of interest. The parents should also start learning the language themselves if they do not know already. This helps the parents to learn together and install a positive attitude towards learning. This also helps in speaking English at home. Children will also freely speak at home with parents without fearing the humiliation by their friends otherwise. Both can correct each other’s mistakes and gain in confidence to speak. Parents should always encourage their children to communicate in English always. They should play various types of games in English and help them speak English as they were taught to speak their mother tongue. This helps in improving the vocabulary as well. Parents should always encourage their children to watch English news channels, children movies and programs in English. Listening helps a lot in learning the language. If they keep listening to some thing again and again, they can learn fast. Along with speaking, they can also learn proper pronunciations of lots of words and their usage. Television and radio news also help them in understanding different types of accent. This helps in understanding pitch, intonation as well. Parents should read bed time stories in English. Stories provide very powerful learning technique. One can remember lots of words and their usages for long and using them becomes easy. Reading also helps in improving the parents’ English as well . Simple repetitive words which rhyme too helps in memorizing the vocabularies and usage of the words as well. They learn to form sentences as well. Arts and crafts are also helpful in learning the language. Parents too can apply this technique of teaching English along with learning centers. Encouraging children to do various activities like drawing, crafts, paintings, cooking, baking is a fun filled way of helping them to learn English. Parents should encourage them to speak only in English while doing all these activities. Encouraging them to ask questions is also important. Along with giving answers, they will also learn how to frame questions. Parents should always encourage their children to point out their mistakes if any while speaking with them. This improves the confidence of children. At the same time to boost the confidence of children, the parents should not keep pointing out the mistakes by their children always. The parents should applause more for the good English along with correcting the mistakes. English Songs and rhymes are very important medium to teach English. At home there is always much more time than in school, so the parents can listen to these and sing along. This helps children to form sentences, learn pitch, intonation and build confidence. Whenever their friends come over to play or sleepover, the parents should encourage them to speak in English among themselves. This is very important to build the confidence of the children. Care should be taken by the parents to use age appropriate songs, rhymes, stories. They should never be burdened with very complex vocabularies from the beginning. The process of teaching them should be slow and steady. After reading stories and listening to songs and rhymes, parents can conduct a mock exam and attractive rewards should be given to encourage them to learn more and gain confidence. Parents should keep motivating all the time. Helping their children to finish their home works and guiding them in English is also helpful. Parents should encourage their children to keep practicing in speaking and writing. Parents should avoid being sarcastic and critical all the time. This kills their confidence level and get de motivated. Praise from parents matter a lot for children because they feel most comfortable with their parents and safe at home. Thus the most important thing the parents should do is to show interest in their children, their work and keep motivating and boost their confidence level always.
