"Silence is golden!" Comprehension opportunities for the development of the 6-10 year age group in Germán as aforeign language teaching

Abstract

According to the National Core Curriculum (NCC), the first foreign language education begins in the fourth grade of primary school at the latest, but if properly trained teachers in the school education program and the institution permits has 1-3. grade was intro-duced in the teaching of a second language. This possibility is consistent with published in 1995 by the European Commission on the so-called education and training. White Pa-per set out the target, the European Union: the more citizens speak three languages of the Community. One of the prerequisites to achieving this goal is the document identifies ear-ly foreign language education as. Not brought forward to meet the requirements of the specific area of foreign language teaching aims, but the development of skills and topics that require processing concentrically expanding, increasingly rich linguistic formulation. Early language development focus of the communicative language competences are mainly primary language skills, listening comprehension and speaking are, and based on these secondary skills, the development of reading and writing. The following good prac-tice, it is shown what the target age-appropriate language and levél of development activ-ities, authentic materials developed successfully in the 6-10 year age group speech com-prehension is early childhood education in Germán as a foreign language.