Use your first language (mother tongue) at home with your children.Talk to your children as much as possible. Tell them about your day and ask them about theirs.
It is normal to place a non-national child, even if s/he has very little English, in a class with children of a similar age. The Department of Education and Science provides a language support programme to enable the school to provide extra English classes for non-national children who have difficulty with English. Your son/daughter may have a language support teacher to help him/her to learn English. A record of your son/ daughter's progress in English will be kept by the school. Your child will receive his/ her own language learning portfolio and you can follow his/her progress by examining the portfolio from time to time.