HOW WE LEARN LANGUAGE
|
HOW STUDENTS STUDY MUSIC BY
THE SUZUKI METHOD |
1. Expectation of Success
All children can learn to speak their mother tongue. |
1. Expectation of Success
All children can learn to play music. |
2. Early Beginning
Parents encourage children to learn to use language from a
very young age. |
2. Early Beginning
Suzuki children usually begin to play music when they are
between 3-5 years old. |
3. Listening
Surrounded by speech from the day of birth, children listen
for about two years before starting to speak in sentences. |
3. Listening
Suzuki students listen every day to recordings of the repertoire
they are going to study many months before they begin study. |
4. Nurturing
Parents always greet gurgling, babbling and first words with
enthusiasm and joy. |
4. Nurturing
Suzuki parents always encourage their children musical effort. |
5. Social Environment
Children learn language within their family and with friends
outside the home. |
5. Social Environment
Suzuki students learn to play music in weekly private lessons
and regular group classes. |
6. Parent Teacher
Parents involve themselves deeply in teaching language skills
to their young children. |
6. Parent Teacher
Suzuki parents are ‘home teachers.’ They help the child during
their daily practice. |
7. Repetition
Children repeat new words that they are learning many, many
times. |
7. Repetition
Suzuki students repeat new skills many times until they master
them. |
8. Performance
Parents proudly display their child's linguistic achievements
from the very beginning - even a goo-goo is good. |
8. Performance
Suzuki students perform a lot in group lessons and recitals.
Their first performance may be a simple bow or song. |
9. Review
Children continue to use the same words that they acquired
as an infant – words remain in their vocabulary. |
9. Review
Suzuki students continue to play their early pieces, using
them as the foundation for technical studies and to advance
through the repertoire. |
10. Natural Reading
Children only learn to read several years after learning to
speak – until this stage, they "learn by ear" all new vocabulary
and grammar. |
10. Natural Reading
Suzuki students learn to read music around 6 years old when
they have learned to "play by ear". |
