How to manage study time at home

As parents, we are aware of the importance of learning English for our children's future, but how much homeschooling time should children dedicate to English? In Great Little People we give you the guidelines to guide you in teaching a second language at home.

Creating habits in children

The study time that children allocate to English at home has to be adapted to the level of maturity according to age. However, it is a complicated task that after a long day of school they start studying at home, especially when they are children. In younger children, the habit of studying as such has not yet been developed. What you can start doing is to establish an English routine at home, so that when they are older, the time to study is easier. You can start with Karaokes, cartoons, Stories in English... as we have seen in previous articles. With these fun and varied activities of no more than 15 minutes, if done regularly at the same time of day, they will not be excessive and will give good results.

Recommendation

The use of the application of Great Little World It is a great tool for children to learn and practice English in a fun way without feeling like an obligation. With its methodology created by Great Little People, it only takes 10 minutes for our children to practice the 4 pillars of a language, in this case English: Listening, Writing, Reading and Speaking. All this, through games and everyday situations.

Study time in older children

The most important thing of all is for the child to understand that at home what they learned at school is practiced and that it is very important to do so. From the age of 6 onwards, education is formalized and that is when it becomes necessary to schedule a moment of daily work. On many occasions, we ask our children for a very high level of care that they are not prepared for. For this reason, the type of care, and therefore of study, will be determined by each child according to their evolutionary pace. However, depending on age, an estimated amount of time spent on activities in English can be proposed:

• 6 years old. Active attention will remain high for 12 to 30 minutes.
• 7 years. Its concentration ranges from 14-35 minutes.
• 8 years. Learning between 16 minutes and 40 minutes will be effective.

Elements that influence study time

Other factors that may influence homeschooling time:Emotional state. Being sad, happy, angry... these are moods that influence the child's concentration while doing the exercises.Motivation. Here the work of parents is essential. We must try to turn our motivation to want them to learn into intrinsic motivation for them.Difficulty of the exercise. The more difficult the activity, the more time it requires dedication and effort. For this reason, dedication time can be increased from time to time. As we have been able to verify, knowing how to manage the time spent studying a second language at such an early age at home is not an easy task. However, with effort and dedication, great results can be achieved.