The best motivation for the desire to study begins with the rise of self-esteem

 

This is the age of globalization. As a result, international marriages are increasing, and multicultural families are naturally emerging in Korea. A few days ago, I participated in a forum on multiculturalism, and there was a speaker who said that bilingual education in multicultural families is a must and should be positive. I shook my head. Children in multicultural families have to learn two or three languages, which is very stressful for the language, and Such children are easy to be distorted, bullied, and even violent even in the lower grades of elementary school.

I have ever wrestled with a child. The child did not want to study English and he convulsed because of even hearing a word of English. He was aggressive to others and always beating. His dad is Korean, he communicates with his dad in Korean, but his mom is Chinese. It is the case that Dad remarried with a Chinese. He said that he had two dads and his brother was Chinese. I thought this confusion would be great for him that had such a complex family, and I started to understand the child little by little. So I did not teach him English. I said to him that he would be given a prize even if he sat quietly in the classroom. So it was possible for me to make him be in a classroom quiet. But how to teach English to him was my homework and research subject.

After that one-month, I came up with the idea. I pretended to know the child. "you have Chinese mom and brother, then you can speak Chinese," and then I asked “what is the country that has great power as much as Chinese?” The child said, “the United States.” "Yes” What language do they use?” "English!" "Yes, you can also speak Chinese, and if you learn English, you'll be a very great person because you can use triple language. So from now on I'll teach you a word of English. You can teach me a word of Chinese."

Then he shrugged and started telling me what cell phone was in Chinese, brother in Chinese, one, two, three in Chinese. I taught him how to speak “happy“, ”love”, ”like” in English. Then he suddenly felt no resistance to learning English.

I thought he must grow up if I did not rush and teach him one by one, so he did not have a sense of rejection. The crucial factor in the child's study of English is that the child has increased self-esteem in a moment. I made him high in sense of self-esteem as saying like this, “In the era of globalization, you have a great fit and you have a lot of merit, I want to learn Chinese from you”

So every day, including the child, the other children and I had a fun lesson in Chinese, English, Korean, as using three languages. This memory is a precious to me. I am proud that the children of multicultural families are easy to be left out, but I make him have friends, so raise sociality and the sense of community, not that simply the child starts to study English. I really want him to grow up to be a great man.