Valeria Meshcheryakova i love english. Meshcheryakova's technique "English for children"

Meshcheryakova Valeria Nikolaevna is the author of the unique course I love English for teaching English to children aged two to ten years. This methodology is fundamentally different from that taught in modern secondary schools. The peculiarity is that learning takes place through various games with the maximum possible immersion in the language environment, where the perception of information by ear, listening, performs one of the most important functions in the learning process.

Effective and progressive

Children study in this program with special interest and desire due to the fact that during classes they sing songs, read poems, role-play skits and completely “lose” the entire lesson. Valeria Meshcheryakova’s methodology ensures that children easily perceive new information in the classroom. A thoughtful approach to homework: young students (and their parents) need to listen to audio lessons lasting ten to fifteen minutes every day. Audio texts were recorded by native speakers, so they allow students to develop their understanding. All materials in this technique work to accumulate a significant passive vocabulary and develop a sense of language.

An important difference between this English and what the school teaches is, firstly, that it is not the language itself that is studied and comprehended, but speech itself. Secondly, learning begins with listening and speaking in the very first lessons without learning rules or vocabulary.

Another unusual feature of this technique is the absence of corrections of children’s speech errors by the teacher during lessons. Instead, multiple repetitions of information blocks are introduced to master the correct version of speech. This is done to prevent the emergence of psychological and language barriers.

Meshcheryakova’s methodology “English for children”: stages of learning

The technique is suitable for teaching children aged from two (three) to nine (ten) years and is interesting and quite effective. It must be said that training leads to real and successful results.

Meshcheryakova’s I love English method consists of several sequential and interconnected steps in learning and mastering:

The zero stage, mainly based on listening and memorizing, is I can sing.
The first stage, improving listening comprehension and forming English speech, is I can speak.
The second stage, improving previous acquired skills and teaching reading, is I can read. Comprehension of reading occurs using a unique technique of color reading based on previously studied material, as a result of which this process is mastered with ease.
The third stage, improving all previous skills and teaching writing, is I can write.
The fourth stage - I can analyze - teaches you to analyze speech during its formation.

We will analyze some of the main stages in great detail in order to understand what Valeria Meshcheryakova’s methodology is.

Listening

The very first and introductory step for those children who are learning a language from the very beginning is the zero level I can sing. Assimilation and learning take place through singing, namely through patterned repetition and memorization of phrases. This happens even without an initial understanding of the translation of words. Understanding itself happens in the background. The child learns to understand the meaning of foreign speech unconsciously (passively) by frequent and regular listening to audio lessons. And active language learning is achieved already in face-to-face classes with a teacher, who transfers the accumulated “passive” vocabulary into the “active” category. At this age, a person can easily master the language(s) in this way, that is, with the right approach and organized training.

English Meshcheryakova defines the goal of this stage - the child’s mastery and perception of speech by ear. Lessons are conducted with children in musical and playful forms. The material used in the methodology is texts with colorful, bright illustrations and recorded songs performed by native speakers.

English according to Meshcheryakova’s method provides for the assistance and participation of parents in the learning process. Their actions are very important. Adults need to provide children with daily access to listening to audio recordings. What should you pay attention to (both parents and teachers studying with this system)? At this stage, phonetic errors that the child makes due to an immature speech apparatus are not corrected by adults, clearly and noticeably to the child. In this case, mentors try to repeat correctly defined sounds or words as many times as possible in order for the children to remember the only correct option. When speaking, gestures and facial expressions are used as much as possible to comprehend the speech in the child’s mind.

Speech formation

The next stage is the first and basic one - I can speak, since the formation of oral speech is one of the main tasks in comprehending the language. At this stage, the child begins to use phrases, words, and clichés that have already been memorized and “imprinted” into consciousness (at the previous stage through repeated repetition and listening) when constructing his speech.

He conducts a similar lesson in the form of a game, and the child constructs his speech more or less meaningfully. Meshcheryakova’s methodology ensures that children achieve comprehension already at this stage thanks to well-thought-out and prepared materials and correct presentation of information:

Visual support for audio recordings in the form of a synthesis of a book and a coloring book contains an illustrated picture for the lesson, in which the child completes the necessary tasks. The main task of the little student undergoing training is to collect these completed coloring sheets from lesson to lesson with the goal of assembling a whole book.
Language information blocks on the disk are repeated many times for the purpose of unconscious and involuntary memorization. During the lesson, the teacher deliberately recreates situations in which these structures are used and reinforced.
Simple and timely tracking of a child’s knowledge acquisition. Every fourth lesson is a control lesson, during which the teacher evaluates the completed tasks with “pros” and “cons” so that the child understands how successful he is in completing certain tasks.
It must be said that the audio lessons themselves are well thought out in terms of content and do not overload children's consciousness and attention. One lesson lasts for ten to fifteen minutes. Throughout the week, the child listens to a specific lesson once every day. But the more, the better. Listening is possible even with incomplete concentration, but in the background, as if by the way. And before the test lesson, he works with the tasks in his coloring book for a maximum of fifteen minutes.
A few words should be said about motivation. Meshcheryakova’s method involves a kind of assessment and approval by the teacher of the correct completion of tasks by the student through drawn pictures (in the form of hearts and flowers). The incentive system is well thought out: even diplomas have been developed for excellent achievements. Also, the child can receive a gift on behalf of the fairy-tale hero with whom he dealt while completing tasks for the lesson he completed.

Question of priority

It happens that Meshcheryakova’s teaching method is not the first method that parents and their children have used and used. In other words, they already have a certain information base. But there is also a desire (or need) to continue learning the language using a different, for example, more effective I love English system. according to Meshcheryakova’s method, it involves studying and mastering knowledge and skills necessarily linearly, sequentially and in stages (0, 1, 2, 3, 4). However, you can continue to apply your existing knowledge and start learning from the I can speak level, subject to the only and necessary condition - daily listening to audio lessons.

Reading training

The I can read stage develops in a child the skills of correct reading without memorizing and cramming various countless rules for pronunciation of certain letters or letter combinations. Meshcheryakova’s technique (“English for Children”) represents a lightweight and unique color reading technique.

Children and teachers work according to a manual in which all words, phrases and texts are highlighted in certain colors and in different fonts. During the learning process, children easily understand and subsequently read these “markers.” No linguistic or semantic distortion occurs during such reading. In the process, the child sees the correct graphic spelling of the word, but at the same time he identifies the corresponding sound-letter pronunciation through color without confusion with the transcription. This technique allows you to immediately start reading correctly for both children and parents who do not know English, but provide control over the completion of tasks.

Meshcheryakova’s method does not provide for the study of the alphabet at this level. This is considered inappropriate and untimely: any one is introduced when there is a need for it. The explanation is that letter names not only do not help, but often prevent children from learning to read correctly and fluently in English. Why is knowledge of the alphabet useful? As a rule, for correct spelling and for searching for new language units in the dictionary. And even at this stage (in order to understand the meaning of the word) a dictionary is not needed yet.

Work in the lesson according to the manual is carried out orally with the teacher recording individual points and exercises on the board. As homework, the child completes written exercises covered in class, and also independently works with additional exercises to consolidate the material studied. It is necessary to emphasize that the wording of the homework is given in the manual in Russian in order to ensure that all participants in the learning process (students and their parents) fully understand what needs to be done. This is created intentionally for functionality, because reading words and texts in English is only now being comprehended and comprehended at this stage (I can read).

Learning in the game

English according to Meshcheryakova’s method is taught in a playful way. Lessons are structured in the form of regularly and frequently changing games. This allows you to make the learning process interesting and exciting, since the child’s main activity in understanding the world around him occurs directly through games. Curiosity and excitement create harmonious conditions for memorizing, repeating, assimilating and consolidating information. Children's positive emotions and encouragement activate their mental cognitive processes as a result of development. In addition, the game is a kind of imaginary and artificially created situation that motivates to use the acquired knowledge at the right time. The teacher’s task is to create the necessary conditions for the development of English speech and the need to use the material covered.

Play is the engine of the development process. Being an excellent learning tool and sharpening the child’s mental activity, it makes the lesson interesting and attractive.

Role of the parent

Meshcheryakova’s method involves, as mentioned earlier, regular and daily listening by children to audio lessons (which were recorded by native speakers). Successful language acquisition requires an appropriate environment, and audio recordings are a kind of this environment. Regular listening to these lessons (short in time) ensures success in mastering this technique. Moreover, the dependence of learning results on the regularity of home listening is linear. In other words, the more a child listens to an audio lesson, the more he understands it. The more understandable, the more he likes it. The more he likes it, the more pleased he is to listen to it again and go to English class. And vice versa.

It would be great if parents help their child create some kind of ritual for listening to lessons (for example, before going to bed in bed or on the way to/from school). Creating some additional motivation on the part of parents would also contribute to more effective learning of a foreign language.

Listening to this audio material is generally an interesting and exciting activity; children like it. However, there are a couple of mistakes that parents make, as a result of which their child will want to stop listening to audio lessons and English classes:

Direct action replacement commands: “Instead of watching cartoons, it’s better to go study English.” This is a very rude and tactless effect on children's consciousness and psyche. Most often, this causes internal protest and reluctance to develop further in this direction. In its own way, this is a kind of negative program that a parent created in the subconscious of his child.
Rare and irregular (or no) listening to audio lessons. In face-to-face classes with a teacher, it becomes difficult for children who do not listen to lessons at home or do so rarely. Any difficulties in a child cause a loss of interest in activities.

The role of the teacher

The teacher in the classroom is a key figure in a successful and effective learning process. It is not enough to know the material and a foreign language. You need to have a lot of qualities. If we take the age limit for children using this method, then the teacher needs to be a speaker, a psychologist, an actor, and a mass entertainer, so that the learning process is as successful and useful as possible. In addition, a teacher is a person who loves and understands children, who can speak the same language with them, but at the same time communicates with them and teaches them another, foreign language. That's how interesting and difficult everything is! With a teacher who conducts lessons in an accessible way, with love and interest, children happily go to class and master the material without much difficulty, this happens automatically. A lot depends on the teacher!

It goes without saying that a teacher must be proficient in different methods and techniques of teaching his subject. Regarding our topic, all this was wonderfully developed and thought out by the author of this course program, V. N. Meshcheryakova. The methodology is unique and differs in many ways from the school teaching course. Accordingly, there are a lot of nuances that a teacher needs not only to know, but also to fully master all the subtleties. For this purpose, there is a teacher training program separately developed by Valeria Nikolaevna’s center, which professionally develops and certified explains how classes need to be conducted in order to teach English correctly using Meshcheryakova’s methodology.

ORGANIZATIONAL FORM

Individual Entrepreneur Olga Viktorovna Goncharova is the official distributor in the Russian Federation and foreign countries of Valeria Meshcheryakova’s “I Love English” methodology, acting on the basis of the main distribution agreement between Individual Entrepreneur V.N. Meshcheryakova. - producer of original methodological and teaching aids in English on the one hand and individual entrepreneur O.V. Goncharova. . - the distributor, on the other hand.

The organizational and legal form of the store is IP Goncharova O.V. Certificate No. 311169025200012 dated September 9, 2011

Director of the store and methodological center - Olga Viktorovna Goncharova

The website www.eng-shop.ru presents Valeria Meshcheryakova’s author’s educational and methodological manuals on teaching English to children of preschool and primary school age, author’s courses on preparing teachers to work with children using these manuals, as well as books and teaching aids by other authors, which are created as additional material for classes with children using the methods of Valeria Meshcheryakova.

ABOUT VALERIYA MESHCHERYAKOVA’S METHODOLOGY I LOVE ENGLISH

Valeria Meshcheryakova’s technique has been developing since 1994. It began with individual tapes that the author recorded daily for his students, and now the I LOVE ENGLISH method of teaching children English is the most popular and effective in the educational services market.

The technique appeared on the market in the form of sets of manuals in 1998. Gradually developing, the technique became more and more in demand. A clear structure and methods of working with children, worked out in practice by the author himself, gave excellent results and this could not escape the attention of teachers and parents. The effectiveness of the technique is manifested in a specific indicator: children begin to speak fluently within a guaranteed time frame and in a guaranteed volume. Naturally, as in all other processes, a guarantee of results can only be achieved with 100% compliance with the methodological principles and rules for organizing the process, which teachers master in V.N.’s proprietary courses. Meshcheryakova.

Active promotion of the methodology began in 2004 after the organization of the Methodological Center by Valeria Meshcheryakova in Moscow (organizer and head of the Center Olga Viktorovna Goncharova)

POSITIVE AND DISTINGUISHING FEATURES OF V.N.’S METHOD MESHCHERYAKOVA

Parents are freed from time-consuming attempts to help their children “do their homework” - you simply turn on the disk for 10-15 minutes every day. You don't need to do anything else. If you don’t know English, this is not a hindrance, but an opportunity to start learning it with your child.

Teachers acquire a very effective and convenient technique. Clearly structured material presented in manuals and the availability of a set of visual aids frees the teacher from the routine work of writing lesson plans and selecting additional materials. The kits have EVERYTHING! The teacher can focus solely on creative work and enjoy teaching as much as the children!

As a result, the teacher receives English-speaking children in a short time. For parents, this is the most powerful motivation to turn to you, as an English teacher, regarding the issue of effectively teaching their children English.

Children will not be afraid to speak English, but will do it with pleasure. When attending English using Valeria Meshcheryakova’s method, children receive 100% positive emotional charge, as if they were attending an exciting entertainment event. Joyful activities for children are the health of your children - mental and physical

Managers (organizers, administrators, investors) of children's centers.

Availability of teachers in your educational institution who are familiar with the methods of teaching children English according to V.N. Meshcheryakova. - a strong motivational factor for parents to invest in your language center (school, group).

Who contacts us:

Teachers of children's centers and language courses.

Future and present organizers of modern children's centers, where the most important thing is not to earn money, but to provide quality services, for which they will receive gratitude from parents in the form of good payment.

Parents who understand the importance of quality education and early development of children. By purchasing our original manuals, they not only thank the author and our entire team for creating a highly effective product, but thereby provide support for further development.

Distribution of the methodology:

Our benefits are used by children throughout Russia, the Baltic states, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine.

Future plans.

Production of audio courses in other foreign languages. Already now you can get acquainted with experimental manuals in French and German. A Spanish manual is expected to be released. In development - Japanese.

Release of additional educational and methodological manuals, both original and created by teachers working according to the methodology of Valeria Meshcheryakova.

Expanding the geography of representative offices of the methodology.

Master classes on the methodology for teachers and parents.

Video presentations and programs in support of teachers working according to the methodology and for parents.

At the beginning of the lesson, everyone greets each other: children, the teacher, funny toys and even fingers. The fingers begin to sing and speak in different voices, the big finger is the teacher, the little fingers are the children. “Who didn’t have time to show all their fingers, who left them at home?” Children experience indescribable delight and joyfully join in the proposed game. Finger games are good helpers for preparing a child’s hand for writing and developing coordination. And so that speech develops in parallel with the development of fine motor skills, rhymes, counting rhymes, and songs are used in classes.

The lesson is conducted mainly in English, reminiscent of a puppet show: all the children's toys speak and sing songs. Suddenly there is a knock on the door and you need to ask a question who is there, guess what guest came today (bear, tiger, cat, mouse, dog, etc.), invite him in, find out what the guest’s name is, how old he is and how his his business.
The exercises are carried out by the teacher or the children themselves “Hands up! Hands down! - the teacher chants, raising his palms up.

The teacher is a cunning cat, and the children are brave mice who imitate the cat with the words “walking”, “hop”, run away with the word “running”, and the cat catches them.

The teacher places the children at the maximum distance from toys (or pictures): - Let's check how our magic binoculars work! (Children put imaginary binoculars to their eyes.) - What do you see? - I see a cockerel and a dog...

The lesson lasted forty-five minutes, but during this period the children managed to do a lot, and they were not sad for a single minute.

I think many people are wondering what kind of secret system of obtaining knowledge is this? And in this article we will tell you in detail what wonderful ways we teach children, and how they begin to speak English fluently, even before primary school.

Distinctive features of the English course “I love English”

The author of the course called “I love English” is Valeria Nikolaevna Meshcheryakova, she is also developing manuals for teachers, where she gives teachers lessons on how to teach a child the language with the help of dialogues, musical compositions, writing and reading, so that they can master the living colloquial speech. This course is perfect for children aged three to ten years; a separate level is used for each age group.

Level 0: “I can sing” - for children from 3 to 5 years old. Children learn to perceive English by ear, follow the teacher's commands, play and sing songs in English.

Stage 1: “I can speak” - for children from 5 to 7 years old. Children acquire English speaking skills. Vocabulary grows to 500 units.

Stage 2: “I can read” - for children from 7 to 8 years old. Children learn to read using familiar language material using the original color reading method.

Stage 3: “I can write” - for children from 8 to 9 years old. Children learn to write in English and construct sentences grammatically correctly.

Stage 4: “I can analyze” - for children from 9 to 10 years old. The skill of analyzing oral and written language material is developed.

Big role in English Meshcheryakova are given directly to the teacher, especially if he teaches the youngest children. He needs to be not only a good teacher, but also an inspirer, actor, psychologist and singer. For this reason, the author pays special attention to teacher training. Our teachers regularly attend seminars by Valeria Meshcheryakova, where intensive immersion takes place over the course of five days, experience is exchanged with colleagues, and unique knowledge in mastering the methodology is acquired. Such a teaching system allows the teacher to better understand the child during the lesson and help him learn the material more easily. After training, all teachers undergo certification and receive certificates, in addition, communication with Valeria Meshcheryakova and other teachers continues after training.

The essence English Meshcheryakova

According to V.N. Meshcheryakova, “In Russian schools, by tradition, a foreign language is considered to be exclusively a subject of study, so children are not accustomed to perceiving it as a means of communication. Some people mistakenly believe that speaking skills are sufficient for communication and try to excel in learning various oral topics. But it is important not to forget that communication is a two-way process. In addition to the ability to speak out, it is required to have mastery of listening, that is, the ability to understand your interlocutor, especially if we are talking about communication in a foreign language. However, this important skill is practiced very little in schools. This is due to the lack of language laboratories, as well as the lack of desire on the part of parents to study technology, coupled with an underestimation of the importance of this skill.”

. “Up to the age of eight or nine years, a child’s brain is designed in such a way that each new foreign language is capable of being “imprinted” in it, forming something like another language center. Most children at this age may experience difficulty when asked to translate a phrase from their native language into a foreign language, but they easily use this phrase when someone addresses them in English.

Some children aged three to five years are not aware of the meaning of the word “translate.” When someone addresses them in Russian, they give an answer in that language, and when in English, they answer in English.

This technique is very close to the natural method of mastering a foreign language. This means that children repeat the process of learning their native language at an accelerated pace. Initially, every child tries to simply listen to an adult, trying to understand him, after which he begins to speak and only after that - read and write.

The training process for the manuals includes four steps. Level zero - “I can sing” - teaches the ability to hear and understand; the first stage is “I can speak”, the second stage is “I can read”, the third stage is “I can write”, the fourth stage is “I can analyze”. The whole course can be completed in 3-5 years, that is, by the age of eight or nine. It all depends on how often the classes will be held.

Each lesson is conducted in English

Audio materials are voiced by native English speakers

English is often used to complete other tasks

Parents also participate in the learning process

How is the educational process structured? Imagine: the teacher speaks English, the audio recordings are also in English, and at the same time spoken English - all this helps to make a foreign language a part of the children’s lives.

Soon they begin to speak and think freely in this language. It is also not surprising that children trained in this system master English as if it were their native language.

The role of parents in the proper organization of education

Valeria Meshcheryakova declares the slogan: “CHILDREN OWE US NOTHING!!!”

You cannot force a child to learn English, the child must be interested! The approach should be such that your child has a “new friend” - at the beginning of training, this is the audio disc “I CAN SING”: funny songs, funny characters, games voiced by native English speakers, which were played in class with the teacher.

Audio lessons English Meshcheryakova You need to listen daily for no more than 10 - 15 minutes. You can listen to lessons anywhere: on the way to kindergarten (school), during meals, before bed, even if the disc can be the background to a pleasant pastime. In no case make the typical mistake of most parents: “Now is the time to study English , turn off the cartoons, let’s go listen to the disc!” Do you think your child will happily respond to your call? Would you be excited to take your next English class? Don’t worry if the disc just plays in the background, the brain of your child under 9 years old is very receptive to any information from the outside, the so-called imprinting method works, i.e. “imprinting” images of language, all information will definitely be deposited in the right hemisphere of the child’s brain.

Valeria Meshcheryakova compares vocabulary to an iceberg, where the underwater part is the passive stock, those same audio lessons that you need to listen to at home every day for 10-15 minutes, and the surface part is the active stock, what your child says in class interacting with the teacher and peers and guests of the lesson. The teacher’s task in the lesson is to transform the passive vocabulary into an active one.

If parents do happen to make any mistake, Meshcheryakova has a “rescue plan” for this case too: it is necessary to turn on the audio lesson before bed, since each child, of two evils - listening to an audio lesson or sleeping - will choose the first (this is also a little trick). Children's attention will not be distracted by something extraneous, after which he will fall asleep, and the information will be stored in his memory for a long time.

Development of innovative proprietary methods

Valeria Meshcheryakova regularly develops something new, and she really loves her job. She created an English language teaching center of the same name, publishes manuals for teachers for each level of the course, organizes original seminars where she generously shares her experience, gives open lessons and analyzes the lessons of colleagues studying according to her methodology. This indicates her high level of responsibility! The method of color reading, which Valeria Nikolaevna presented in her manual “I can read,” is also of great interest. Let's describe it briefly.

How can a child who does not know phonetics learn the skill of reading correctly?

At first it seems that this is difficult to do, since in English phonetics there are many different readings and combinations of letters. The same letter can be read in different ways, in the case of vowel letters it depends on whether the letter is in a closed or open syllable. Consonants are read as voiced, some of them as voiceless. As for sounds, there are neutral sounds, and some do not read at all. Specialized texts present these letters in different colors according to how they are pronounced. In particular, neutral sounds are marked in yellow, and white sounds are not readable at all, black sounds are unvoiced, and red sounds are voiced.

It is easy for a child to remember which color refers to which sound. Then they begin to use the similarity method, and over time they will move from colored colors to black and white. Thus, without having any idea about the rules, it is possible to learn to read even difficult texts.

If you find this technique interesting, then we are happy to welcome you and your children to our Children’s Club “Professor”!

Today I learned about Meshcheryakova’s technique. What was surprising was that the little children were already speaking English, understood what the teacher was telling them, behaved very freely, laughed, played, as if they were not in class at all. I even have a complex: I seem to be studying grammar, drawing tables with rules, but here the children conduct dialogues so easily and without any tables. Meshcheryakova herself did not look like a teacher at all, and it was as if some kind of cheerful Mary Poppins “number two” had descended on an umbrella.

English for children Meshcheryakova's lesson begins with cheerful greetings, in which everyone participates: the teacher, children, toys and even doors. All this is not said, but sung. The fingers began to count, and also for a reason: the fingers sing and talk in different voices, there is a finger - the teacher and fingers - the children. “Who didn’t show all their fingers, who forgot them at home?” Children laugh and have fun. Then the teacher suddenly remembers that she forgot to introduce herself, and the acquaintance by name begins.

The lesson is conducted mainly in English and resembles a puppet show: all the toy animals talk and sing songs. Then suddenly there is a knock on the door and you need to ask who is there and invite them in, then the charging begins: Methodology I can sing “Hands up!” Hands up!” - the teacher sings, and the children immediately raise their hands up.

Then a game of cat and mouse ensues. The teacher turns into a cat, and the children into mice.

"I am grey!" - the children shout and run away screaming. At the end of the lesson everyone says goodbye. The lesson lasted 15 minutes, but during this time the children managed a lot, and they were not bored for a single minute.

I was interested: what kind of technique is this? And I even became a little envious - we weren’t taught that way. From the first lessons, we filled notebooks with a series of letters and memorized standard phrases, and many knew the language worse than these preschool children.

Features of the English course “I love English”

Meshcheryakova system Valeria Meshcheryakova is the author of a course called “I love English” and manuals for teachers, in which she gives them lessons on how to teach children the language through songs, dialogues, reading and writing, so that they eventually master live spoken English. The course is suitable for children from 2 to 9 years old; each age uses its own system. All lessons are based on the type of children's television programs: “Good night, kids” and “ABVG Dayka”

In the course, a large role is given to the teacher, especially for young children. He must be not just a teacher, but also an artist, an entertainer, a singer, a psychologist. Therefore, the author is interested primarily in training the teachers themselves.

Deep Dive Method

Deep immersion method Meshcheryakova is convinced that today the teaching of English in kindergartens and schools is conducted incorrectly. Proof of this is that children do not know how to speak when they graduate from school. She bases her training not on theory, but on practice, primarily on audio lessons. The training is based on the deep immersion technique:

lessons are taught only in English
recordings in audio materials are made by native speakers
English is used for other tasks
Parents also take part in the training

So how does this actually happen? Imagine: the teacher speaks English, other tasks not related to the language are done in English, the audio recording is in English, and spoken English - all this leads to the fact that the language becomes a part of the children’s lives. Gradually they begin to speak and think in it fluently. It is not surprising that children taught under this system speak English as their first language.

The role of parents in children's education

When Meshcheryakova addresses her parents, that serene, cheerful image of Mary Poppins flies away from her, and before us is again a strict teacher. And it’s clear why: parents are capable of ruining everything and ruining any impulse in the bud. Therefore, I will give some of her advice here.

Children learn quickly, and parents often lag behind their children, which is bad:

firstly, children, seeing the example of their parents and respecting them, will decide: well, since the parents themselves do not know English, then why should I know it.
secondly, knowing the language, you will be able to teach your children yourself.

Video message to parents

How to conduct training correctly

It should be interesting for children; urging of this kind is unacceptable: “Come on, immediately turn off the ‘tanks’ and sit down to learn English!”

Do not allow incomprehensible places to arise; this will accumulate and the child will not want to learn.

You need to listen to audio lessons constantly every day, without leaving all the material for the week for one day before the test (control task - every 4 lessons)

You can listen to lessons anywhere, even on the way to kindergarten (school).

At first, it is recommended to simply listen to the entire course three times lightly, without completing assignments. Don't think that children won't remember anything. This will instill in them a primary passive vocabulary to the depths of their subconscious. Meshcheryakova gives an interesting comparison of vocabulary with an iceberg, in which the underwater part (passive vocabulary) is often smaller than the surface part (active vocabulary). And the teacher’s task is to bring the underwater passive part out and turn it into an active one.

If parents do mess up, Meshcheryakova offers this rescue option:

turn on an audio lesson before bed, because any child will choose the second of two evils - sleeping or listening - (such a little trick). Nothing distracts his attention, after that he will fall asleep, and all the information will be stored in his long-term memory.

Development of new proprietary methods

The author is constantly developing something new, and really loves the language and his work. She created a language teaching center with the same name, and she published manuals for teachers specifically to teach them her method of teaching English using audio lessons. What a responsible person! Her color reading technique, described in the manual “I can read,” is interesting. I will briefly describe it.

How can children who do not know phonics learn to read correctly?

This seems like an impossible task. After all, in English phonetics there are a lot of different letter combinations and discrepancies. The same letter is read differently, for example, for vowels it depends on which syllable, open or closed, the letter is in. Consonants are read as voiced, some as voiceless. In terms of sound: there are neutral sounds, some are not readable at all. In special texts, all letters are painted in different colors, depending on how they are pronounced. For example, yellow ones are neutral, white ones are unreadable, black ones are dull, and red ones are voiced.