The accent in bilingualism in children
The accent in bilingualism in children one of the parts that most concerns us when our children learn and develop bilingualism in English is the accent, both of whom they are learning as they are acquiring themselves. Then doubts begin to arise as, will the teacher have a good accent? Will she be ab
The accent in bilingualism in children one of the parts that most concerns us when our children learn and develop bilingualism in English is the accent, both of whom they are learning as they are acquiring themselves. Then doubts begin to arise as, will the teacher have a good accent? Will she be able to speak the language with an English accent? Will she never take the accent? or where is it better to travel to learn the language, which area is spoken with the best accent?
How to strengthen the English accent in children
When a child is learning a language he absorbs everything around him, even the accent. The phases for bilingual children to learn the language are:
- Relate sounds with different people, assigning a language or several to each person around them.
- Begin to understand some words in both languages (almost simultaneously, but more in the majority language.)
- Understand phrases in both languages.
- He says his first words, in his majority language, and some in the secondary one.
- Understand both languages.
- Begin to effortlessly separate the two languages.
- Start creating your own accent with the stimuli that surround you.
The emphasis on child bilingualism or, what is the same, on learning a secondary language is easily modifiable while the child is under 16 years of age.
In the first stage of learning English, the most important part is to get the child to be able to understand any type of accent without problem, rather than having a perfect accent, since it is easier to get accent than understanding later. For this, the best way is to surround the child with different accents, each day that passes is much easier to achieve without any effort due to new technologies and the globalization of languages in the world.
In the nursery as well as in the school or in an academy, the child must go through different stages and teachers with different accents, in addition to potentiate with different material from different countries. The most accessible accent now is the American, since nowadays we can see any movie or cartoons in the Original Version, with which we can use the drawings and the movies to enhance the American accent leaving other resources for other accents.
When buying material in English for children we can look at the origin of it, choosing an accent different from the one the child is used to.
The different accents of English for children
Normally, when we speak of accents of English, we usually generalize them only in English (England and Ireland), American and Australian, although it is far from reality. Only in the United Kingdom can we find English (traditional), the Welsh accent, the Scottish accent and the Northern Irish accent. Although even within these accents we can find hundreds of variants, the same happens in the United States and Australia, with which we find a very large number of different accents of English.
As we chose the destination according to the accent, when the tourism of language studies began, there were a few areas that specialized in the teaching of English, among them, the Oxford and Cambridge area, both presented as the Traditional and original accent of English, also its strength with the Universities gave them a boost in the teaching of English both summer camps for children from 10 to 18 and for adults. Another of the destinations that stood out at that time was Ireland, thanks to its landscapes and its atmosphere, it became one of the favorite destinations for children.
Any destination is good for learning English, in addition it is always nice to know other accents, the important thing is to make us understand and understand them.
