Ideas, tips and resources for primary language teachers. Earlychildhood NEWS - Article Reading Center. When we first brought our daughter home from the hospital I was inexperienced.
Mother came to help and in her always wise and gentle way said, "Honey, you need to talk to that baby. " What wonderful advice! Mother's counsel paid great dividends and I remembered it when our granddaughter was born. How can young children best learn languages? The British Council's Tracey Chapelton explains how parents of young children can lay the foundations for success. Children's brains are highly active Your child is unique, but what all children have in common is natural curiosity and an innate ability to learn.
Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies. Alison Gopnik: What do babies think? Early Childhood Care and Education. Early childhood, defined as the period from birth to eight years old, is a time of remarkable growth with brain development at its peak.
During this stage, children are highly influenced by the environment and the people that surround them. Early childhood care and education (ECCE) is more than preparation for primary school. It aims at the holistic development of a child’s social, emotional, cognitive and physical needs in order to build a solid and broad foundation for lifelong learning and wellbeing. ECCE has the possibility to nurture caring, capable and responsible future citizens. In this way ECCE is one of the best investments a country can make to promote human resource development, gender equality and social cohesion, and to reduce the costs for later remedial programmes.