Posts Tagged ‘foreign language’
Finnish education meets early language teaching in groundbreaking online course
Playvation and Learning scoop have joined forces to create a brand-new course on early language teaching. The course “Teaching languages to young children” will help early educators to teach foreign language to the children in their care. Two major players in Finnish education come together as Learning Scoop and Playvation partner up to create an…
Read More“I learn languages! What’s your Superpower?”, says a 5-year-old Julius from Finland 2/2
In our first part of the series “Learning languages”, we reviewed the changes in language teaching that currently take place in Finnish primary schools. In this second part we extend the discussion in the direction of early childhood education and pre-primary education in Finland. To start with, the idea to introduce different languages during the…
Read MoreFinland is changing the teaching of languages 1/2
This blog post is part of series “Learning languages”, 1/2. Please find here Blog 2/2. Children learn foreign languages best in their early age: there is a so-called sensitive period for learning different languages during the first years of life. According to different scientific studies this sensitive period lasts from the birth to 6-8 years…
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