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Re: Looking for Spanish teacher
Maramama,
Has your child learned Spanish or is she learning now in the other language center? If it's a private tutor, do you have any idea of the fee per hour? My child has a Putonghua tutor but it's only 30 mins., twice a week. She tried an hour at first, but we found that she couldn't get fully focused till the end. Now it really works and she does like it. It may be a bit difficult for 4-5 yr old's to sit nicely and listen for an hour. You may want to consider various activities to keep her interested if you find one.
Back to YC, they also offer one-to-one/small group tutor but as you can imagine, it's rather expensive. In 3-4 children group, each child needs to shell out $300 per hour!:tongue:
I like 東山's approach that they let children "feel up to" speaking in the settings. But they also do mix kinda wide range of age group (2-5yrs) in one same playgroup where you often see some children get off the track and mess up in the class. One day, in Sat. class, which there were more kids than weekdays, 2 five yr old boys kept squabbling all the way and finally got into brawl!!! My child was so upset and so were others. There was a little boy under 3 yrs and he was full of cry with that mess. My daughter said after the class, "Mommy, I'm not gonna go back to that Sat. class anymore!"
Well, I must say this is just one of the cross that you could bump into. But, to me, it seems a bit of waste of money to send my child just to the playgroup there for some time. Even though Spanish is possibly the third, fourth or fifth language to a child, I believe we should take a similar approach as their other excelling languages. If a child attends playgroups like in 東山, they will probably like the target language and get familiar with some common phrases. And I do understand that having fun makes children feel easier and learn better. That is true in one sense. But they can't just "play" all the way. In which case, that could be "it" in the end. I suppose a proper literacy is to be introduced to a child according to the age and their cognitive ablility. Otherwise, they just can't ever get out of the first place and won't be able to get that language going in 4 skills (speak, listen, read and write) on their own. However, at the moment, I don't see any language course in Spanish for young children to learn to build up a proper literacy....
The class in YC just started last week so I'm still watching how it goes. At the same time, I'm looking for some books, workbooks, CDs to back up her learning. Maramama, have you found any materials for your child before? Hope that we can set up a playgroup for our kids which they will enjoy "learning Spanish" (not just to play) so that we keep them "close" to that language. That's how they get motivated!  |
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發表於 06-9-26 14:46
