Linguist Club

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How do we develop native language skills at Skillful Friends?

Skillful Friends Language Club develops children's linguistic and communication competencies, as well as provides opportunities for building foundational skills and abilities through experiential learning. At Skillful Friends, we particularly emphasize creating an accepting atmosphere, a supportive environment where both educators and peers allow for making mistakes. According to parental feedback, children studying with us approach school challenges with more confidence and use their language expressive tools more boldly even in traditional classroom settings.

Learning within play is the most effective form of learning that aligns with a child's needs, desires, and provides space for experimentation. Through the use of linguistic and communication games, children playfully and embedded in experiences and knowledge, familiarize themselves with their mother tongue. Mother tongue games enhance speech perception, comprehension, and production, as well as facilitate the organization and conscious application of instinctive language knowledge. During games, children perform cognitive operations, become more creative, and those struggling with speech impediments find relief and express themselves. Through collaborative play activities, students gain direct experience of their language and communication competencies. Games serve multiple functions: they positively develop specific skills, social competencies, moral development, and creativity.

The Hungarian language subject has an important task of intensively developing fundamental abilities necessary for independent and creative use of oral and written communication in various contexts of modern society. It involves teaching language usage modes practiced in different domains and ensuring diverse, adequate, learner-centered language practice. Playful and self-expressive exercises create opportunities for developing linguistic awareness, creativity, nuanced self-expression, the desire to understand others, and skill enhancement. This developmental process is built upon introducing mother tongue culture.

The students need to acquire a writing pace that serves their learning needs and meets the age-appropriate requirements. Through knowledge of their mother tongue, we can develop conscious language awareness and higher-level oral and written language usage. Within this framework, students can gain elementary knowledge about the structure of the Hungarian language. Concept formation is based on linguistic experiences. Grammar knowledge is connected to developing basic spelling rule knowledge and spelling skills. Alongside rule application, an ongoing developmental task is to cultivate students' self-monitoring and error correction skills and develop the habit of using a spelling dictionary. It is necessary to increase students' awareness, perseverance, and meticulousness in various language activities and help them gradually take control of their learning activities over increasing periods of time. The primary goal in the sphere of writing and spelling activities is to develop and enhance spelling based on linguistic experience.

NCC (National Core Curriculum) compatibility: practicing core material and acquiring supplementary content related to the core material.

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