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Topic: Foreign languages should be taught to young children.
General Purpose: To persuade
Specific Purpose: The audience will support teaching children foreign languages .
Central Idea/Thesis Statement: Children should be taught in, preschool and elementary school, foreign languages
Preview: How and why it should be taught, and what to do to teach languages earlier.
Organizational Pattern: MMS
Introduction:
Hook: Most have children, plan on it, or struggled with a language in high school and/or college.
Audience:Had probably a language class and possibly struggled with it and/or have or may have kids going to learn a language
Credibility: Future elementary educator
Primary Summary:Kids logically, have an easier time learning languages.
Body:
Monroe's Need
Logos
Children at preschool and elementary age are more susceptible to "absorbing" information than someone in high school or older.
Dr. Lori Matthew, a psychology professor, brought up in her Child and Adolescent Psychology class that Piaget figured that children's biggest asset is language development in preschool and early elementary. As well as other research showing that multilingual students, when taught languages younger, students are better augmented and kids are at a better spot developmentally to learn more words.
Kids are better at learning more when it comes to learning a language because they are already are developing language while adults already have developed language skills.
Why is language is important to kids?
There is a bigger demand for languages but the availability shrinks in easy access in schools.
*PULl UP PHOTO*
Mary Ellen Flannery shows on her article called "As Need for Foreign Languages in School Grows, Access Continues to Shrink" posted in January of 2017 to NEA Today.
B. Pathos
Most people i went to high school with seemed like they struggled with foreign languages
Whether it was Spanish, French, or Japanese.
Monroe's Satisfy
In preschool or elementary, not all teachers may know a foreign language or much of a language
Teachers can be hired on to come into a classroom for a bit out of the day.
Children will learn a couple of new words a day.
Soon their vocabulary will be strong enough to start adding in easy sentences.
ACCORDING To Dr. Lori Matthew, Kids between ages 3 to about 10 are like a sponge when it comes to language. Children around that age group on average learn 6-10 new words a day. It could be foreign languages as well.
How solutions satisfy need
If there were a few teachers in different languages in the school
The teachers come in for 15 to 30 minutes a day.
Students learn languages easier than a high school student or older
There is even online resources to teach language like Duolingo.
C. Overcoming basic objection:
Now most might not be on board initially but after some transition periods will be a norm for young kids
Monroe's Visualization
(+)Teaching students= better communication not only in the states but in different places of the world.
(-) If schools teach languages it would take time out of the school day for STEM.
(+ ia) But on the flip side. If we don't teach them when they are younger.
There is more time for math or reading
(- ia) Going into previous thought, there would be a worse of a language barrier.
Conclusions:
Final Summary:
Children's developmenting brains are easier to manipulating into learning new info. At the same time less and less foreign language skills are being presented to the students.
Call for action:
As current or future Parents (that is if you have kids), or even future teachers. We should teach kids a little bit of another language. A tutor would be a good bet for parents who do not know another language.
Work Cited
Ford, Catherine. "'Children Should Start Learning Languages at Age Three'." The Telegraph, Telegraph Media Group, 10 Oct. 2014, www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationopinion/11151726/Children-should-start-learning-languages-at-age-three.html.
Flannery, Mary Ellen. "As Need for Foreign Languages in School Grows, Access Continues to Shrink." NEA Today, 13 Jan. 2017, neatoday.org/2017/01/13/foreign-languages-in-school/.
Matthew, Lori. 3 Dec. 2018.
Merritt, Anne. "Are Children Really Better at Foreign Language Learning?" The Telegraph, Telegraph Media Group, 18 Sept. 2013, www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationopinion/10315238/Are-children-really-better-at-foreign-language-learning.html.
Tassinari, Tyler. "10 Best Language Learning Apps For Kids." ELearning Industry, ELearning Industry, 20 Apr. 2018, elearningindustry.com/10-best-language-learning-apps-for-kids.
