Abstract
Perhaps the most complex question risen among linguists, psychologists and philosophers is how a child learns foreign language? Considering that language learning is natural and that babies are born with the ability to learn it since learning begins at birth, still Language learning (be it native or foreign) is a process that is not simple and short. It takes time, patience and self-discipline. Independent from some internal and external factors that are found inside and outside of every learner and which differ from each and every person this process has its pros and cons. A foreign (English) language learning at an early age has evolved considering modern technologies and methodologies used by individual learners and teachers. The earlier the language is learnt the more fluent the speaker is, but what happens to the mother tongue? Is the child well understood by the community, school teachers and friends? What is the progress of that child at school, what are psychological effects of technology used in the process of learning a language, what is the best age to learn a foreign language? , etc. These and many other questions will be discussed in this paper. The findings of this paper are assumed to also identify teachers’ perceptions about the main challenges they face during the classroom management with foreign language speakers in the classroom, the strategies they use, parents’ attitude toward this and also to find out some steps that parents and native language teachers should take to improve the situation.
Highlights
In today’s world children are surrounded by screens all around them: television sets, computers, tablets, and phones either to watch or play with
The earlier the language is learnt the more fluent the speaker is, but what happens to the mother tongue? Is the child well understood by the community, school teachers and friends? What is the progress of that child at school, what are psychological effects of technology used in the process of learning a language, what is the best age to learn a foreign language?, etc
The correlation table gives us a mathematical value to measure the strength of the linear correlation between two variables. As it can be seen on the table the correlation coefficient concludes a positive correlation between: Thinking Confusion of bilingual children and Fighting bilingualism in the context of children at an early stage, and we can say that this correlation is at a significance level 0.05 (0.000)
Summary
In today’s world children are surrounded by screens all around them: television sets, computers, tablets, and phones either to watch or play with. Some children even have access to their own tablet and phone, starting at a young age. All these devices help children in a way or another how to behave, learn new games, new languages etc. What is the progress of that child at school, what are psychological effects of technology used in the process of learning a language, what is the best age to learn a foreign language? A person may be bilingual by virtue of having grown up learning and using two languages simultaneously (simultaneous bilingualism). One of the factors that is negatively affecting the development of children is the uncontrolled use of technology especially in early ages. Doing so very soon they start speaking foreign language, respectively English instead of their mother tongue making their parents proud. The research was done in those institutions that are claimed to have pupils/children with such problems
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