Learning English – It Is Not Always About the Rules!
How do so many people across the globe start learning English? The first language we learn is our mother tongue – at home, with friends, in school. As we listen and speak, we learn our native language even before we begin reading and writing.
Learning to read in our mother tongue is easy. In early classes, teachers use words we know. We like reading when we recognize words and understand their meaning. Once we start reading fluently, we learn new words and become even better in our native tongue.
Learning English as a second language is not always as simple
Put – But
No – Do
Cow – Mow
Bow – Now
None – Zone
Grown – Brown
In the examples provided above, the words have similar letters but they sound different! And these different sounds for the same letter do not always follow any written or easy to remember rules.
To overcome this we must listen to English being spoken, speak along with it, and hear and say most commonly used words. This helps us learn the sounds and enables us to recognize words. This is an important first step towards learning the language.
English language learning is most effective when learners are taught in a multi-sensory manner, using content that is both relevant to their context and at a difficulty level that they can comprehend while trying to learn English.
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