Oral Language Development in Second Language Acquisition
From reading Chapter 4, it gave me a better understanding on this particular topic. Especially teaching children the language function of addressing people in social settings with respect. Sometimes I have students who are rude when they speak to me and I have witnessed them being rude to others. I can not help but think that they lack understanding in how to speak to an elder person, teacher, or someone in authority. They may have not been taught to speak with respect to an elder, a teacher or an authority. We as educators need to educate our students in how to orally address people in social settings in a polite and respectful ways. We, ourselves should model correct behaviours in social settings, so our young can follow. Just a thought.
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One thing that I have learned from teaching Kindergarten is that you have to teach children "everything," even the simplest of things, at least once. Because, you are right, they may not have been taught the social expectations of being in school or around other people.
ReplyDeleteIt is something that I always have to keep in mind when dealing with children, especially in term behavior. From kinder through 5th: Explain it & Model it. And if their inappropriate behavior happens again, then we (me and child) are going to have an even longer talk.