THE ROLE OF COUNTING RHYEMES IN TEACHING NEW LANGUAGES FOR CHILDREN
Keywords:
nursery rhymes, language development, social and motor skills, sing-song, gestures ,actions, education programs, building vocabulary, improving pronunciationAbstract
Counting rhymes have been an integral part of children's play and language development for centuries. These simple, catchy tunes not only help young children learn to count but also develop their language skills, improve their memory retention, and develop their motor skills and coordination. In recent years, counting rhymes have been recognized as an effective tool for teaching new languages to young children.
One of the benefits of using counting rhymes to teach new languages is that they expose children to new vocabulary, sentence structures, and grammatical patterns. For example, the popular nursery rhyme "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe" teaches children how to count up to 20 and introduces them to the concept of rhyming words. Similarly, the Spanish counting rhyme "Cinco Patitos" teaches children to count backward from five and introduces them to Spanish vocabulary related to ducks.
Counting rhymes also help children associate numbers with objects or actions in the new language. For example, "Ten Little Indians" teaches children to count up to ten and introduces them to the concept of subtraction as each Indian disappears from the group. Similarly, "Cinco Calabazas" (Five Pumpkins) teaches children to count up to five in Spanish while associating each number with a pumpkin.
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Kurbanova, M., Ibragimova, Z., & Nuriddinova, S. (2022). Lexico-Semantical Properties of Omonym and Alliance Words Used in Epics of Independence Periods. Periodica Journal of Modern Philosophy, Social Sciences and Humanities, 3, 93-96.
Kurbanova, M., Ibragimova, Z., & Nuriddinova, S. (2022). Lexico-Semantical Properties of Omonym and Alliance Words Used in Epics of Independence Periods. Periodica Journal of Modern Philosophy, Social Sciences and Humanities, 3, 93-96.
Kurbanova, M., Ibragimova, Z., & Nuriddinova, S. (2022). Lexico-Semantical Properties of Omonym and Alliance Words Used in Epics of Independence Periods. Periodica Journal of Modern Philosophy, Social Sciences and Humanities, 3, 93-96.
Kurbanova, M., Ibragimova, Z., & Nuriddinova, S. (2022). Lexico-Semantical Properties of Omonym and Alliance Words Used in Epics of Independence Periods. Periodica Journal of Modern Philosophy, Social Sciences and Humanities, 3, 93-96.
Kurbanova, M., Ibragimova, Z., & Nuriddinova, S. (2022). Lexico-Semantical Properties of Omonym and Alliance Words Used in Epics of Independence Periods. Periodica Journal of Modern Philosophy, Social Sciences and Humanities, 3, 93-96.
