1 How to cultivate a bilingual baby? If the baby is born, you will start the English enlightenment work. I suggest you refer to the following three stages of exercise:
0- 1 year-old, when listening is the main thing, when the baby is still in the mother's belly, the baby can respond to human voices, especially numb voices, from about 20 weeks of pregnancy. A week after birth, the baby's hearing has been fully developed.
How to teach? Mom can sing some beautiful English nursery rhymes to her baby, or read some catchy nursery rhymes with lovely actions, Doby Baby. Parents don't have to worry about whether their pronunciation will affect their baby, just let the new language impress their baby.
Suggested duration: 10- 20 minutes each time.
Objective: Even if the baby doesn't understand what he is listening to, it can lay the foundation for the introduction of English in the future.
1-3-year-old babies are active at this stage, with short concentration time, but they are very sensitive to sounds, can distinguish subtle differences between different sounds, and are curious about different sounds.
How to teach? Play children's songs or cartoons, encourage children to jump with the content of the picture and imitate animated rap. After watching the video, you can play some interactive games related to the animated content with your children. In my spare time, I can also play games, watch things and speak English names with my children. For example, if a mother raises a fork, the baby can quickly say "folk".
Suggested duration: 20-30 minutes per day, which can be carried out in stages.
Objective: To cultivate children's sense of language and understanding consciously.
Note: the time period can be divided according to the child's interest and concentration, such as 5 minutes at a time and 4-6 times a day.
Adults should be patient and respect children's active characteristics. If children don't like it at first, don't ask them to follow suit and cultivate their interest step by step.
After 3-6 years old, children's concentration becomes longer and they have a strong interest in letters. When listening to familiar nursery rhymes, they can dance according to the video content even if they don't watch the video. Children with strong language skills can even sing along with video songs vaguely, or jump out of one or two short words clearly, indicating that children have basically internalized video content. At this stage, it is best to read short sentence picture books, supplemented by massive listening input.
How to teach? At this stage, you can learn English letters to familiarize children with 26 letters and familiar words. Make word cards with children. Choose some English picture books with slightly longer sentences but simple or rhyming sentences. It is best to read an English picture book every day to help children accumulate vocabulary in the context and lay the foundation for listening and reading in primary school.
Suggested duration: 30-40 minutes each time, 1-2 times a day.
2 What is the power of bilingual babies? There are many benefits in cultivating bilingual babies, and I believe that parents who want to do so have their own answers in their hearts.
For example:
Understanding the world from another cultural perspective
Enhance brain function and make children's cognitive ability stronger.
Lay a good foundation of English and adapt to competition.
A necessary prerequisite for cultivating children into primary school tyrants
Let others envy and hate. ...
As a parent, whatever you like will be the motivation for you and your baby to study hard.
Hard work? Yes, this article is not a quick post that many people want to read. Cultivating bilingual babies really requires parents' long-term persistence and efforts, and more needs the cooperation of babies. Two minutes on stage, ten years off stage. How can a crash course train a baby who blows up the sky!
3 is it bad for the baby to be bilingual? Babies are a sensitive period of language development. In the meantime, if parents can keep their children in a good language environment, children can easily master a certain language. But learning two languages at the same time will cause confusion and hinder the baby's language development?
1 Mixing two languages does not mean confusion. Some scholars believe that within a few days after a baby is born, the brain can distinguish the differences between many languages, especially those with great differences, such as Chinese and English, or French and Japanese. After the baby has a certain bilingual foundation, there may be a phenomenon of mixing two languages, but it does not mean that their brains can't distinguish between the two languages.
2 Why do babies speak two languages together? If the vocabulary of one language is not enough, borrow words from another language.
Because you like words or expressions in another language, use this word on purpose.
It is inevitable that the two languages will be mixed, and there is no harm. As the baby's vocabulary of two languages increases, the two languages have more contact, so they are not often mixed.
Is it too late for bilingual babies to learn to speak? It has long been found that bilingual babies learn to speak a little later, but now researchers have found loopholes in those research designs. In other words, past research results are unreliable.
When is the best time to start bilingual enlightenment? Of course, in a sense, English enlightenment is never too late. Some experts pointed out that the best time to start training bilingual babies is 0~3 years old. At this time, children are learning their mother tongue and their brains are more open and flexible. During this period, the second language and the first language information are stored in the same area of the brain.
0~3 years old:
The higher the sensitivity to different languages, the golden period of bilingual learning.
4~7 years old:
The brain is still in the stage of rapid progress in bilingual acquisition and can establish a second language system.
8 years old to adolescence:
It is not too late. Studies have shown that children's ability to learn a second language will gradually weaken after puberty, because the area in the brain where new languages are stored has changed and they need to learn through translation. In other words, I began to learn English at this time, and no matter how hard I try, it is difficult to reach the level close to my mother tongue.
5 how to grind your baby's ears? Some mothers say that their English is not very good and feel that there is no way to help their babies learn English. In fact, even parents with poor English have a lot to do with it. Even grandparents who don't know English at all can open up online resources such as audio stories, English nursery rhymes and cartoons to create a bilingual environment for their babies. Although the plan may not be perfect, it is better to do it than not to do it, and more is better than less.
Grinding ears is to realize the accumulation of English phonetic input. Children's songs, rhyming poems, cartoons and picture books are all materials for grinding ears. Mothers can selectively give their babies intensive or extensive listening.
1 Children's songs, nursery rhymes and rhyming poems can be widely listened to, without understanding the meaning of each sentence. As long as the child hears the content unconsciously, the sound may naturally enter the child's brain and let the child learn to hum along with the melody.
Cartoons and picture books attract children with characters and storylines. Listen extensively first to understand what the work wants to express, and then listen carefully with pictures. Visual and auditory information complement each other, and it is easier for children to express themselves when they encounter the same scene again.
2 quantitative change leads to qualitative change grinding ears is not a quick process, and it requires a lot of material accumulation to achieve qualitative change. However, parents should pay attention to the fact that it must be an effective quantitative change to trigger qualitative change.
If the following behavior is what you are doing, please correct it quickly. These are invalid inputs:
After playing the stereo for n hours, I feel that the children don't like it.
After listening to several children's songs for several months, they are still widely listened to.
The audio of several English books is played randomly, regardless of whether the children are attracted or not.
To sharpen children's ears, the most important thing is to find the content that children are interested in first. Don't be impatient, what other children like may not suit them. In the early stage of ear grinding, parents should spend more energy on finding suitable resources for their children.
Learning needs persistence.