Children in Research's Focus

There are a lot of research explanation about children. What we know is children are naturally curious. Now, we are talking about research's focus. Some of them are brain research, competition model, naturally language acquisition.

Brain research, researcher said that there are the differences between early bilingual and young learners. In early bilingual, children still using both right and left brain together, so that we can introduce the language. In young learners, they have used their brain as we know. The right one for abstract, music, art, etc and the left one for numbers, verb, logic, etc.

Competition model, this model explain that the children are comparing the language we give and their mother tongue. in this part, we have to careful when introduce new language for them, especially in Bahasa and English.

Naturally language acquisition, it means about holistic approaches. It is an organic process in children. Their mind will be easier to understand if they study trough their own experience.

how child explores his new world

Child is the very unique person in the world. He has his own way to see arround. In my experience, child tries to explore his new environment by using his visual. During his exploration he needs someone who makes him save, for instance his parent, grandma, or babysiter. He looks arround but his hand always keep in touch with the person who makes him save.
After that he is going to go to the place or station that he likes and play there as long as he wants. although he play in one station, he cares about the situation arround. He can use his audio to explore. He can learn by all the things arround him. he needs more time to enjoy before he can join fully in new situation. besides that, he needs readiness to join the new activity.