What are the opinions of Montessori teaching on bilingual education? | |
According to the Montessori development history, we can see that she has developed from Europe, America, and Asia to all countries around the world. When bilingual, three or many languages naturally exist in the environment, Montessori education can develop local language teaching activities suitable for various environments. This proves that Dr. Montessori pay great attention to the combination between children's Chinese education and cultural background.
Therefore, Montessori education provides a ready environment for children's learning attitude. In this ready environment, children can absorb various information provided, so it is a natural learning environment. Children will decided what they will learn and when will learn on their own. So does language learning. If the environment can provide multiple languages, children will learn multiple languages under natural condition.
However, the following conditions should be followed:
1. Real living environment should provide the opportunity for using this language.
2. Make sure to start with learning of mother tongue in order to acquire the basic pronunciation and grammar structure.
3. In multi-language environment, each language is conveyed by particular persons, for example, mandarin and Taiwanese are spoken by different people, who will lead the children to learn language.
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