Do you know how increase the intensity of input?

    One way to increase the amount and intensity of input necessary for implicit and subconscious EFL learning in instructed contexts is to provide enough exposure for implicit language learning, to increase the reception and the production skills and to provide with effective practices that give young learners clues of meaning. You may think, how can I do it or where I can find some information?

 

     We can teach children to listen and to pay attention in the EFL primary class with multimodal and multisensory techniques. With experiences such as:  seeing, listening, moving, touching, imitating, singing, playing, experimenting, manipulating and speaking are very important. With  techniques such as: making eye contact, facing the speaker, no interrupting, good body language, interest facial expressions, and asking and answering questions.
 

We have some examples will serve to illustrate a few strategies:
 

·        Listening games: Children can listen to sounds in and around the classroom (wind blowing, traffic noise, ticking clock, bird dinging) then children report orally to us about the sound.
 

·        Handclapping games and body percussion: Children can experiment with sounds made with different parts of the body (clap hands, click fingers, tap knees)
 

·        Circle time: is a teaching practice that can be conducted at any time of the school day, from morning rituals (greeting, register, weather, calendar, story time) to singing time and story time. In circle time, children can listen to stories; tell stories and narrative their experiences.
 

·        Musical activities: we can make up our own songs. With the use of songs; They will develop both comprehension skills: listening to the songs, and reading the lyrics, and production skills (singing) and writing (creating and/or changing lyrics),with the use of songs our students can dance whatever they like to express their emotions or make gestures following the song directions. Children can pay attention to the lyrics and learn about other cultures.
 

·        Storytelling: Children make indirect and unconscious language learning meaningful through picture books being read in class.

 

It's time for you to join these experiences.