Introdução
1. Maintain Good Eye Contact
Show your child how interested you are in what he says. Lower yourself to his height and maintain good (natural) eye contact when he starts to tell you something. Through good eye contact your connection with your child will be established with confidence and trust.
2. Speak Clearly and Slowly
Always think that your child may be hearing for the first time the word you are speaking. Speak clearly and with good articulation so that your child may be able to use this word correctly.
3. Be a Good Listener
It is very important to listen to what your child has to say. Be a good listener and let your child talk! Listen with interest and attention! Provide opportunities for your child to initiate a dialogue or a conversation.
4. Value Vocabulary
When your child uses a new little word in his speech, worth his vocabulary. Say, "Wow, what a good word you used to express yourself!" Always positively reward the use of new vocabulary with comments and affection.
5. Look at Books & Read Stories
The simple fact of looking at a book and turning its pages together with your child helps to maintain a dialog, in which comprehension will be stimulated and oral production encouraged.
Make reading a good ritual in your child's routine. Reading stories helps expand their vocabulary, improves their grammar, and increases their fantasy and creativity.
6. Self-Talk
Describe what you often do in front of your child: "I'm putting in your backpack your bottle with juice, your bread and a fruit. We can't forget to put in your backpack the library book for you to return today.”
This strategy is an excellent way to provide vocabulary and language content for your child.
7. Repeat Many Times
Repeat to your child several times what you would like him to learn. For example, "... the butterfly flew off flapping its wings, the little bird flew off ... What else did fly off?"
Teach language content repetitively in normal everyday situations.
8. Ask Questions
Questions like, "What?", "Why?", "Who?" "Where", are perfect for increasing the size of your child's answers and oral expression.
9. Use Corrective Feedback
Your child's mistakes should be corrected by repeating the correct form, for example: your child says, " The wabbit is so cute." You say: "Yes dear, the rabbit is really cute”
10. Tell More...
Help your child expand his/her narration, through your language model. Example: your child says, "Pizza ready!", you say, "Yes, the pizza is ready and hot! First we need to wait a little while for it to cool down and then we can eat it."
1. Avoid walking back and forth while your child is talking.
Avoid any visual distraction, such as looking at books, magazines, your cell phone, or computer, when your child tries to tell you about some event.
2. Don't talk too fast to your child. Thus, omitting the end of words, plurals and other grammar structures.
3. Avoid speaking for your child. Many parents want to protect their children when they speak for them, but overprotection can be especially damaging to the development of oral language.
4. Don't be too passive when your child speaks something new. Lack of encouragement, positive comments and encouragement can contribute to a lack of interest in learning, especially in the minority language.
5. Don't choose books that are not adequate to your child's age and development.
Don't choose topics that your child doesn't like.
Don't read to your child in noisy or very hectic environments.
Don't read too far away from your child, out of his height and visual field.
Avoid reading too fast, in a monotone voice, and without interaction with your child.
6. Don't be "economical" in your narrative. Parents who don't speak much miss the opportunity to help their children expand their vocabulary, learn the grammar of the language, build sentences, etc.
7. Don't forget to repeat the new words or verbs to your child several times during the day. Lack of repetition can lead to a lack of attachment and internalization of the learning. The child may end up forgetting!
8. Avoid asking questions with "yes" and "no" answers, for example: "Are you going with your grandmother to the theater today? The answer will be a short "yes”.
- Better: "Where are you going with your grandmother today?"
9. Don't repeat your child’s speech errors, for instance: "- Son is not “socolate” but “chocolate."
10. Avoid repeating what your child has said. Try to enrich his/her content by giving him/her examples and models of language. Be careful not to talk excessively. Everything must be balanced!
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