Meshcheryakova's "English for Children"

Meshcheryakova Valeriya Nikolaevna is the author of a unique course I love English for teaching English language children aged from two to ten years. This method is fundamentally different from that given in modern general education schools. The peculiarity is that the training takes place through various games with the greatest possible immersion in the language environment, where the perception of information by ear, listening, performs one of the most important functions in the learning process.

Effectively and progressively

Children are engaged in this program with a special interest and desire because they sing songs, read poems, play roles and play the whole lesson. The methodology of Valery Meshcheryakova ensures an easy perception of new information by children in class. Thoughtful approach to homework: small students (and their parents) need to listen to audio lessons every day from ten to fifteen minutes. Audio texts are recorded by native speakers, so you can form the correct pronunciation of students. All materials of this technique work on the accumulation of a significant passive vocabulary and on the development of linguistic flair.

An important difference of this method of teaching English from what the school gives is, first, that it is not the language itself that is studied and comprehended, but the speech itself. Secondly, training begins with listening and communicating in the very first classes without learning rules or vocabulary.

Another unusual feature of this technique is the absence on the lessons of correction of speech errors of children by the teacher. Instead, a multiple repetition of information blocks is introduced to develop the correct version of speech. This is done to prevent the emergence of psychological and language barriers.

Technique Meshcheryakova "English for children": levels of study

The method is suitable for teaching children in the age of two (three) to nine (ten) years and is interesting and effective enough. It must be said that learning leads to real and successful results.

Method Meshcheryakova I love English consists of several sequential and interrelated in the study and mastering the steps:

• Zero stage, mostly built on listening and memorizing, - I can sing.
• The first step, improving listening and forming English speech, is I can speak.
• The second step, improving previous received skills and teaching reading, - I can read. Comprehension of reading occurs by a unique technique of flowering on the basis of previously studied material, as a result of which this process is mastered with ease.
• The third step, improving all previous skills and teaching the letter, - I can write.
• The fourth step - I can analyze - teaches you to analyze speech when it is formed.

Some stages, the main, will be discussed in great detail in order to understand what the methodology of Valeria Meshcheryakova is.

Listening

The very first and introductory for those children who study the language from the very beginning is the zero step I can sing. Assimilation and study pass through singing, namely - through the patterned repetition and memorization of phrases. This happens even without an initial understanding of the translation of words. The very understanding takes place in the background. The child learns to understand the meaning of foreign speech unconsciously (passively) with frequent and regular listening to audio lessons. And active language learning is achieved already in full-time employment with the teacher, which the accumulated "passive" stock of words translates into the category of "active". In this age period, a person can easily master the language (s) in a similar way, that is, with the right approach and organized training.

Methods of teaching English Meshcheryakova determines the purpose of this stage - the development and perception of the child by speech. Lessons are held with children in music and game forms. The material of the technique are texts with colorful, vivid illustrations and recorded songs performed by native speakers.

English methodology Meshcheryakova provides assistance and participation of parents in the learning process. Their actions are very important. Adults need to ensure children's daily access to listening to audio recordings. What should I pay attention to (to parents and teachers involved in this system)? At this stage, the phonetic errors that the child makes because of the immature speech apparatus are not corrected explicitly and clearly for the child by the adult. Mentors in this case try to repeat the correctly defined sounds or words as often as possible in order to memorize the only correct variant for children. When speaking, gestures and facial expressions are used to maximize understanding of speech by the child's consciousness.

Formation of speech

The next step is the first and basic - I can speak, since the formation of oral speech is one of the main tasks in comprehending the language. At this stage, the child begins to use in the construction of his speech already memorized and "imprinted" in the consciousness (at the previous stage through repeated repetition and listening) phrases, words, cliches.

Similarly, the teacher / parent conducts the activity in the form of a game, and the child builds his speech more or less meaningfully. The technique of Meshcheryakova ensures the attainment of understanding by children already at this stage due to well thought-out and prepared materials and the correct presentation of information:

• The visual support to the audio recordings in the form of the synthesis of the book and the coloring contains an illustrated picture to the lesson on which the child performs the necessary tasks. The main task of the young pupil passing through the training is to collect these filled coloring sheets from the lesson to the lesson in order to collect the whole book.
• Language information blocks on the disc are repeated many times for the purpose of unconscious and involuntary memorization. The teacher in the classroom already deliberately recreates the situations in which these structures are used and fixed.
• Simple and timely tracking of child's learning. Every fourth lesson is a control, in which the teacher evaluates the "completed" tasks and the "minuses" to complete the task, so that the child understands how successful he is in the performance of various tasks.
• It must be said that the audio lessons themselves are maximally thought out in terms of content and do not overload the child's consciousness and attention. One lesson lasts for ten to fifteen minutes. Throughout the whole week the child listens to a certain lesson from once. But the more, the better. Listening is possible even under conditions of incomplete concentration, and in the background, as if by the way. And before the control lesson, he works with assignments in his coloring book for a maximum of fifteen minutes.
• I should say a few words about motivation. Meshcheryakova's methodology provides for an original assessment and approval by the teacher of the correct performance of tasks by the student through the drawn pictures (in the form of hearts and flowers). The incentive system is thought out: diplomas for excellent success have been developed. Also, a child can receive a gift from the person of the fairy-tale hero, with whom he dealt in the performance of assignments for the lesson learned.

Question of Priority

Sometimes, it happens that the method of teaching Meshcheryakova is not the first method to which parents and children have worked and worked. In other words, they already have some information base. But there is also a desire (or necessity) to continue learning the language for another, for example, more effective system of I love English. The English language, according to Meshcheryakova's method, involves learning and mastering knowledge and skills necessarily in a linear, sequential and step-by-step manner (0, 1, 2, 3, 4). However, you can continue to apply the knowledge already available and start learning from the level I can speak with the only and necessary condition - listening to audio lessons daily.

Learning to read

The stage I can read forms the child's skills of correct reading without memorizing and memorizing various innumerable rules for pronouncing certain letters or letter combinations. The technique of Meshcheryakova ("English for Children") is a lightweight and unique technique of flowering.

Children and teachers work on a manual in which all words, phrases and texts are highlighted in certain colors and in a different font. In the process of learning, children easily understand and then read these "markers". There is no any linguistic or semantic distortion with such reading. The child in the process sees the correct graphic spelling of the word, but at the same time he allocates by means of color the corresponding sound-letter pronunciation without confusion with transcription. This technique allows you to immediately begin to read correctly to both children and parents who do not know English, but provide control over the performance of tasks.

Meshcheryakova's method does not include the study of the alphabet at this stage. It is considered inexpedient and untimely: any language unit is introduced when it is necessary. It is explained by the fact that the names of letters not only do not help, but often prevent children from learning to read correctly and freely in English. Why can knowledge of the alphabet be useful? As a rule, for correct spelling and for finding new language units in the dictionary. A dictionary even at this stage (to understand the meaning of the word) is not needed.

Work at the lesson on the benefit is carried out in the oral expression with the teacher fixing certain moments and exercises on the board. As a homework, the child performs the exercises written in the class, and also works independently with additional exercises to fix the studied material. It should be emphasized that the wording of the homework is given in the manual in Russian in order to fully understand by all participants in the learning process (pupils and their parents) what needs to be done. This is intentionally created for functionality, because reading words and texts in English is only now comprehended and interpreted at this stage (I can read).

Learning in the game

English method Meshcheryakova taught in the form of a game. Lessons are built in the form of regularly and often changing games. This allows to make the learning process interesting and fascinating, since the child's main activity in comprehending the world around him occurs directly through games. Curiosity and excitement create harmonious conditions for memorization, repetition, assimilation and consolidation of information. Positive children's emotions and enthusiasm intensify their mental processes of cognition as a result of development. In addition, the game is some kind of imaginary and artificially created situation, motivating to use the knowledge at the right time. The teacher's task is to create the necessary conditions for the development of English speech and the need to use the material.

The game is the engine of the development process. Being an excellent learning tool and sharpening the child's thinking activity, she makes the lesson interesting and attractive.

The role of the parent

Meshcheryakova's method implies, as already mentioned earlier, regular and daily audition of audio lessons by children (recorded by native speakers). To successfully master the language, you need an appropriate environment, and audio recordings are a kind of similar environment. The regularity of listening to these lessons (short in time) ensures success in mastering this technique. Moreover, the dependence of learning outcomes on the regularity of home listening is linear. In other words, the more a child listens to an audio lesson, the more he understands it. The more understandable, the more he likes him. The more he likes him, the more he listens to it again with great pleasure and goes to the English class. And vice versa.

It will be wonderful if the parents help their child in creating some kind of ritual for listening to lessons (for example, before going to bed in bed or on the way to school / from school). The creation of some additional motivation on the part of parents would also facilitate a more effective learning of a foreign language.

Listening to this audio material is generally fun and interesting, they are popular with children. However, there are a couple of mistakes that parents allow, as a result of which their child will want to give up listening to audio lessons and classes in English:

1. Direct commands substitution of the action: "Instead of watching cartoons, it is better to go in for English." This is a very rude and tactless impact on the child's mind and psyche. Most often this causes an internal protest and an unwillingness to further develop in this direction. In its way, this is a kind of negative program that the parent created in the subconscious of his child.
2. Rare and irregular (or altogether absence) listening to audio lessons. In the private lessons with the teacher, children who do not listen to the lessons at home or do it seldom become difficult. Any difficulties in the child cause a loss of interest in the studies.

The Role of the Teacher

The teacher at the lesson is the key figure of a successful and effective learning process. It is not enough to know the material and the foreign language. You need to have a lot of qualities. If you take the age limit of children by this method, then the teacher must be an orator, and a psychologist, an actor, and a grassroots entertainer, so that the process of cognition is as successful and useful as possible. In addition, the teacher is a person who loves and understands children, who can speak with them in one language, but at the same time communicating with them and teaching them another, a foreign language. That's how interesting and difficult it all is! To the teacher who conducts lessons accessible, with love and interest, children happily go to classes and master the material without much difficulty, it happens automatically. A lot depends on the teacher!

Needless to say, the teacher must possess different methods and techniques of teaching his subject. With regard to our topic, all this is wonderfully designed and thought out by the author of this course program, Meshcheryakova V. N. The methodology is unique and differs in many respects from the school course of teaching. Accordingly, there are a lot of nuances that you do not just need to know the teacher, but also fully master all the subtleties. To do this, there is a teacher training program developed separately by Valeriy Nikolaevna's center, which professionally develops and certifies how to conduct classes in order to teach English correctly according to Meshcheryakova's methods.

Feedback from teachers can be found in a wide variety. Someone is delighted with this course - such teachers go to special programs directly to the author-trainer, learn the methods of teaching themselves, and then teach their students about this program. Perhaps, in the course of their studies, they somehow supplement their lessons, because without this you can not do. There are those who passed the training according to the methodical program, but remained it is not satisfied for certain reasons (perhaps the teacher himself is not so personal internally free in the lesson to be a creator and an active enchanter and an engine in the process of learning and cognition).

But there are also those who got acquainted with Meshcheryakova's benefits, but did not pass professional courses. Many of the subtleties of the process may not be fully understood or not visible at all. However, such an experienced teacher and personal opinion have such teachers and, I must say, express them in a rather sharp form. Of course, in this case, the method of Meshcheryakova, which the man does not understand, will not cause the teachers' reviews to be the most flattering. However, such opinions are not directly related to the content of the teaching methodology, rather, they will say more about the incompetence of the teacher in the language program Meshcheryakova. It is worth noting that not all teachers can afford to undergo specialized training courses in this methodology due to the high cost of the program and the materials themselves.

Methodology of Valeriya Meshcheryakova: feedback from students and parents

Pupils and parents involved in this language course note noticeable and tangible results - this is a deep interest in the topic and relatively easy use of the studied material by children in the gaming environment. We can assume that this is effective and effective author's methodology (Meshcheryakova). "English for children" reviews cause children to be happy (the desire to go to school and perform tasks - important indicators), parents - satisfactory-positive (as children make progress in learning), the teachers working for this program are quite inspired. Such conclusions can be made if you look at the official website of the author of this course video calls on a technique that are well-founded. In addition, a lot of information about its technology is provided by Valeria Nikolayevna Meshcheryakova herself. The method of teaching English is really interesting and unusual. And its successful testing on children's groups lasts for more than ten years, as a result of these classes, students begin to speak English and understand the interlocutor.