pronouncination at a early age

kakabear · Post by **kakabear** » Wed May 31, 2006 3:07 am

Is it a turth that the younger one practice your pronouncination, the higher level you will get in this field?

In China, more and more parents sent their kids to the pronouncination trainning school in order to practice their kid's pronouncination as early as they can. One of the trainning programs is the Lily's English which only teach the students how to speak to words in a right way. but the teachers do not pay attention to the grammar structure or the spelling of the words.

I do believe that practice spoken English at a early age is good for students' learning, what's your opinion? waitting for your replies

Sally Olsen · Post by **Sally Olsen** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 8:22 pm

Little children can learn to speak any language you teach them, but it seems to work best if one person speaks their own native language and another person their own native language and so on. So the quality of the pronuncation of the caregiver in their lives is the important thing. If the teachers at Lily school have good pronuncation in English, then the children will likely learn good pronuncation. What "good" is depends on your definition though. It also depends on the teachers to make the learning interesting, relevant, and age appropriate so the children really want to learn. These children will probably get more formal learning in their English classes at school so I wouldn't worry if they don't do those things in pronuncation class. They will learn grammar because if they didn't they would just say words and not be able to put them together. Hard to imagine that anyone would just teach them individual words.