| In the growth economies of the world most parents | | | | Now when children start to learn English as a second |
| want their children to learn English. And they are | | | | language they usually learn it very early. In Asia that |
| prepared to pay cold hard cash for after school and | | | | usually means while they are still at kindergarten. |
| weekend classes even though the children learn | | | | Then at school they bring in the phonics in grade 5 |
| English in school. While in the supposedly Developed | | | | when the children are 10 to 11 years old. Which is a |
| English speaking world the experts have changed the | | | | good time to start the serious learning of English. |
| way children learn to read and now kids are leaving | | | | In families where the parents speak different |
| school with below standard reading levels. | | | | languages you usually find the children struggle at |
| They changed the system from a very effective | | | | school learning the language that is taught at school. |
| reading method to what we have nowadays. Yet in | | | | But when they get to high school they are proficient |
| most foreign countries where English is taught in the | | | | in both languages. It is no wonder that Asian children |
| classroom the children are taught English using | | | | are some of the best students even though English is |
| phonics. It is no wonder the children are leaving | | | | not their first language. So it looks like English as a |
| school better educated that we are in the west. | | | | second language and children go together overseas. |
| English is a part of their way of life and if they want | | | | But here in the English speaking world the powers to |
| to get ahead in the future they must know English. | | | | be are doing their best try and stop struggling |
| So children and English go together. | | | | learners learning to read English. |