Strategies for Oral Language Development and Language Proficiency

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Chapter 6: Strategies for Oral Langauge Development
Children learning a new language often face challenges in comprehending and mastering the language. However, an educator can make the process easier by using appropriate strategies that students can relate to and understand. Thus as a teacher, applying the knowledge to teach a particular way can quickly impact how a student learns and remember the language. This paper will provide a reaction to strategies for oral language development that can work best for students.
First, encouraging peer-to-peer conversation during lunch and snack breaks will encourage students to take active roles in the language and easily relate to what is happening. For instance, when I was young, our teacher enabled us to use the learned language outside the classroom with our peers. I quickly understood the language, and communicating with my peers created a competition, which made remembering and speaking easier. Further, our teacher composed songs that we sang during break time and were a source of motivation to understand the new language.
Second, drawing charts on the wall with the exact language taught helps students remember the vocabulary introduced. This means that the student will always see the written language and form a repetitive pattern in their mind, making developing a new language easier. Further, encouraging students to sing helps them remember what has been taught. For instance, in my elementary, our teacher created a song for the solar system to make it easier to remember. The music felt nice, and today, I still remember the songs and understand the solar system years later. Thus, composing a song in the language being taught can be effective and appropriate for oral language development.
Third, encouraging listening and describing events in the classroom helps to understand a new language. For instance, a teacher can read them a story and ask the student what they have understood. Also, an educator can ask the students to describe the events in the story, and if there is a new vocabulary, a teacher can ask them to answer and reward whoever gets it correctly. For instance, asking students to describe what is happening, such as the teacher is writing or the students are clapping, makes learning more relatable.
Fourth, an educator should encourage their students to read books in the taught language. This way, they will come across other vocabulary used in the oriented language. Also, a tutor can set aside lessons to read books or magazines written in the taught language. For instance, in my Elementary school, our English teacher had one class every week where we would go to the library to read books, newspapers, and magazines written in English. This strategy helped us learn new vocabularies and sentence structure which were practical and essential for the English language. They used to be my favorite days as the changing class environment encouraged more learning.
Therefore, oral language development can be effective with the right strategies. These strategies include but are not limited to encouraging peer-to-peer conversation, wall charts, and song applications and enc...