BILINGUALITY — English
BILINGUALITY
We are a bilingual preschool. In practice it means that one of the teacher in each group talks to children only in English. Thanks to this solution all children in our preschool have contact with a foreign language throughout the whole day – the language immersion method.
Moreover learning any foreign language only in a traditional way of teaching can sometimes be very monotonous especially for a preschool age children. Mainly because children have a lot of new words and phrases to learn by heart which might be boring for them.
The language immersion method works differently. In a short way it could be said that this technique (method) involves continuous communication in a selected foreign language throughout the entire day. Numerous of a scientific studies also shown that learning a foreign language in this particular way (immersion method) is highly effective. Language immersion method could be also described as acquiring a foreign language in its very natural form – without the need to memorize the individual words and complex grammatical structures.
Moreover the long-term listening and speaking in a foreign language engages a several senses at the same time based on the previously mentioned: polysensory stimulation and multisensory cognition. Therefore, over time learning a foreign language becomes faster and easier for children. Children begin not only to speak but also to think in English!
What’s more, during the free peer-play, children in our preschool use almost exclusively English-language teaching aids. Additionally (as a part of the tuition fee) we also conduct a regular everyday English-classes under the supervision of a methodologist – always divided into two age groups. Although, the huge number of a scientific research shows that the period of a highly-increased development of a human language-competences is approximately maximum 5–6 years old.
The main principles of our activities:
SOCIAL COMMUNICATION
- LANGUAGE IMMERSION
- EMPATHY & LEAP
- ATTACHMENT PARENTING
EMOTIONAL REGULATION
- SENSORY INTEGRATION
- SOCIAL SKILLS TRAININGS
- HEALTHY COUSINE
TRANSACTIONAL SUPPORT
- SMALL GROUPS
- MONTESSORI METHODS
- PRIVATE PLAYGROUND