The Importance of Children's English Teaching
1. Children learn English with little interference from their mother tongue.
With the growth of age, the mother tongue becomes more fluent and perfect, and everyone's mother tongue habits become more and more consolidated. When adults begin to learn a foreign language, especially a language completely different from their mother tongue, they often unconsciously take their mother tongue as the standard and accept the language they have learned. Therefore, some phenomena in foreign languages are often strange and difficult to understand. This psychological emotion disturbed by mother tongue will directly or indirectly affect the second language learning.
2. Children have little psychological obstacles in learning English.
In the process of foreign language learning, learners' psychology and emotion are important factors affecting their acquisition. Adults will care about whether their grammar and meaning are correct, and they will feel humiliated if they say it wrong; However, children's "language self-esteem" has not yet formed, and they can't tell which is their mother tongue and which is not their mother tongue. Naturally, they will not have resistance to English.
3. Early English training is conducive to the development of children's intelligence in all aspects.
Learning English is very important for developing children's language, cognition, thinking and communication skills. A large number of studies show that the cognitive development level of children who start learning foreign languages from early childhood and lower primary school is generally higher than that of children of the same age who do not learn foreign languages. In the standard academic tests of all subjects, their scores are better than or at least equal to those of children of the same age who do not learn foreign languages. Bilingual children are often better than monolingual children in fluency, flexibility, creativity and novelty.
Children learning English can also give rich stimulation to brain cells.
There are hundreds of millions of cells in the human brain, which are connected into a complex network, and these brain nerve cells reach their peak at the age of three. If you don't give them a lot of stimulation before the age of three, some brain cells will shrink because they are useless. It can be seen that the earlier you learn a foreign language, the better for your child. English is one of the most widely used languages in the world. Therefore, it is particularly important to learn English well.
However, English, as a language, is slightly different from other subjects, so we should pay attention to certain learning methods in childhood:
First, interesting teaching.
Interest is the best teacher, which greatly promotes English learning. If children are interested in what they have learned, they will take the initiative to learn, then English teaching is half the battle, so how to guide children's interest in learning has become a key issue for parents and teachers. Children are lively and active, love to perform, and are willing to accept new and interesting things, so we should make boring language content acceptable to children in interesting ways. Lively and interesting learning methods can help children learn in play, create a good language environment for them, and help them learn, and at the same time, exercise their social skills and adaptability.
Second, teaching methods should be diversified.
Children are different from mature students. Children can't concentrate on one thing for too long and are easily distracted. Therefore, to cultivate children's interest in learning, we should pay attention to the gamification and diversification of teaching forms and avoid boring teaching. Some common methods of early education are:
① Story teaching method;
② Situational teaching method;
③ Game teaching method. In addition, different teachers also have their own unique skills, and the comprehensive use effect is better.
At home, parents can also help their children do something. Parents can learn to sing English children's songs as the most introductory way. Parents are fond of teaching and children are fond of learning. As children learn more and more, they can take some fresh learning courses step by step. It's good to read English stories, watch English cartoons and read along. In short, we should make full use of childhood, entertain and educate, and really let children win at the starting line.