From Vocabulary to Fluency | Expert Advice on Nurturing English Speaking Skills in Kids at Home

Dear parents are you worried that your child is not speaking in English ? Here we have perfect solution for your problem in our blog …. English , Yes English of course English is most commonly spoken language . And all the parent desire their children to speak or communicate in English for their better opportunities in the future.

Most of the mothers ask this question to English educators , How should I start guiding or supporting my child at home to speak in English ? Here are the best tips from experts to guide the parents.

Have regular routine
Fun with stories
Singing songs in English
Listening to news or radio or audio books
Quick start with phrases
Playing games
Using App
Find a partner
listen to everything in English
Praise your children
Interrogate with simple question
Lets celebrate Tea party
Maintain dairy
Prepare Flash cards
Form the club

Don’t worry if your child is unable to communicate or speak in English instantly . Have patience , each child is unique and requires time to get along with speaking in English.

Tip 1. Have regular routine: It’s a good suggestion to set apart a regular routine to speak with your child that is constant or fixed weekly once or twice . Sit with them and speak about any topic of their interest or even having few fun filled projects like drawing the solar system , cut and stitch maps.

Tip 2. Fun with stories: children always love stories or picture books, spend quality time to show picture or read the stories with them . the colourful pictures attracts them and helps in the imagination too. Make a modification here while narrating stories please do add few questions pointing the picture , this activity will encourage them to make simple sentences and improve listening skills as well.

Tip 3. Singing songs in English: its proved that singing songs and rhymes in English will help them remember the words and repeat many times, and retains so that they use those words in making various sentences. Songs or music captures children`s attention with out any stress.

Tip 4. Listening to news or radio or audio books: Though its one of the oldest tip to listen to news at least 15 min per day . now you can replace with audio books instead of news if required . Listening to audio books, it’s a great idea to inculcate English listening and speaking through interesting stories. These audio books always attracts the children to enjoy learning language with amazing imagination experiences and help them speak English fluently with unique pronunciation. Here are some audiobooks your children are bound to enjoy.

Tip 5. Quick start with phrases: You can start with phrases or topics like numbers, colour, animals, food , name of toys, body parts, they will pick up the phrases and names very quickly . Even phrases like thank you , please, yes of course , no I dont , will be easy for them to speak . ask few questions like whats your favourite colour? What colour is this ?

Tip 6. Playing games: wow this is wonderful tip for children,which will definitely work well since most of children would love playing and learning . Playing action games, board games, online games and word games like word wipe, Scrabble, spell tower will develop the vocabulary of the children. They will search new words everyday and enhance the knowledge too.

Tip 7. Using App: This is most trendy one and wise one too. Parents can download few app on mobile or any device to teach them English at home . these app are very engaging and attractive for all children. Few app for suggestions are DUOLINGO app, Cambly -English Teacher, Hello English – Learn English.

Tip 8. Find a partner: Parents can help children find a friend or partner to speak in English for at least 10 to 20 min per day . Make a rule to speak only in English with simple sentences and then shift to complex sentences .

Tip 9. listen to everything in English: This is one of the most valuable tip for all English speakers. Let the children listen to English songs, movies, audio books, news, or someone communicating … anything is fine . In the beginning they hardly understanding any thing but soon they start capturing few small words and later on develop to apply in speaking.

Tip 10. Praise your children: This tip helps them nurture emotionally and build confidence. Parents can create Reward system at home, for every task them complete a praise them and reward them with surprise gifts . this create a sense of success and always push them forward in learning .

Tip 11. Interrogate with simple question: Parents can ask few simple questions - like what are you eating ? what are you doing? Where are you going? Are you ok ? How are you ? so that they express their answers and speak in English . Since the questions are simple, answering would be easy task for them .

Tip 12. Lets celebrate Tea party: the younger kids always love having tea party with soft toys and few friends , so parents can join them and enjoy having tea and cake. Learning to speak English with play mode is fun for younger ones at home.

Tip 13. Maintain dairy: Few of them maintain dairy to pen down and learn through it . This habit will not only help English speaking even the writing too. Help them to maintain a separate book or dairy and note down the day to day happenings including at least 5 new vocabularies.

Tip 14. Prepare Flash cards: Parents can make few flashcards physically or use digital ones, they help them to speak up few words or phrases . making flashcards with English words on one side and the same word in your language on back side, this would be a great idea to make them look at the word understand and practice saying it .

Tip 15. Form the club: Parents can help children in forming club with similar language need so that they spend few minutes weekly, so that they can play and speak in English . Share common thoughts and ideas with others in the club , so that its encouraging them to speak in English in groups so that they can work on their confidence and social interactions too .

Conclusion

These tips are quite inspiring to all the parents to quickly start teaching children to speak in English at home. We at Bambinos, provides online sessions on communication program which will work on similar lines to teach English and build confidence too. So dear parents planning to choose a time and day to use these tips very soon , then it will be a remarkable gift to your children and set them up for success in future. Its always beneficial to teach new language to a child rather than when they are adult . If we start at their early stage, they will definitely have high level of fluency. Lets get started !!!!

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Article Author

Rupa Vanagundi

Rupa always believes learning is fun and turns to be a great life experiences. Teaching is my passion , yet explored myself in various fields of human resources, administration , counselling , quality control too. Wish to always play challenging roles so that I am learning every day and keeps my mind and thoughts young . Currently working as Educator at Bambinos.live. When not working also enjoy travelling ….

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