My best friend's child just went to kindergarten. She has been grinding the child's ears from time to time, but she still can't understand anything. She prefers listening to Chinese stories to English. ...
She always complains to me, "What should I do? Neither my husband nor I are good at English, especially oral English. We are afraid to teach our children badly, and we will be anxious if we don't teach them. We also tried many methods: signing up for kindergarten classes, reading English picture books and watching English cartoons ... but the results were not satisfactory, so we kindly stopped ... "
So, when does English enlightenment begin? What kind of enlightenment is most effective?
In fact, this stage is the best time for English enlightenment, whether it is children who have just entered kindergarten or primary school students who have just entered grade one. Professional enlightenment training will guide children to fall in love with English naturally and make parents get twice the result with half the effort!
However, the number of children's English training institutions is dazzling. Some focus on one-to-one or one-to-many conversations, some focus on picture book reading, some focus on natural spelling, and some directly let children recite articles and talk about grammar ... Parents often get lost in many choices.
Mother tongue is inspired by sound.
Let's look at the process of children learning Chinese in China.
Many parents think that children in grade one of primary school will learn Chinese only after taking Chinese lessons and starting to learn pinyin and write Chinese characters. But this is not the case. Children begin to listen to the people around them as soon as they are born, and they begin to talk when they are about two years old. These processes are all Chinese learning processes, and this learning has nothing to do with words and pinyin.
Learning is purely through sound!
Therefore, China children's Chinese enlightenment begins with listening and speaking, and the relationship between listening and speaking must be heard before speaking. Only when your brain has a certain amount of sound can you express yourself freely when you speak.
And this process is also the mother tongue enlightenment process of people all over the world-no one asks children who can't speak to learn words, spelling and grammar from scratch.
English enlightenment should first establish English thinking.
Most of my parents started learning English after the age of 10, and they started learning English from words, grammar and reading at the beginning without any listening training at all. When you hear an English sentence, you often can't react quickly. You always have to translate it into Chinese before you can understand it.
Simply put, we don't have an English thinking, and we always use Chinese to understand English. This is why we can understand an English article, but we can't even cope with the simplest English conversation.
However, as a communication tool, language listening and speaking is the most basic expression. When children learn English, no matter how many words they recite or how much grammar they learn, the key is to learn to understand English with English thinking and learn to listen and speak.
The process of English enlightenment should be natural and without conflict.
Do you have any questions when you see this? English enlightenment means listening and speaking, and the first problem to be solved is listening, which is the most effective way of enlightenment. With basic listening enlightenment, children can learn English as naturally as their mother tongue.
Then, in English learning, why are many people keen to add reading, natural spelling and even grammar in the initial stage? Perhaps it is because our mother tongue enlightenment process is so natural and painless that it is easy to ignore the importance of listening and speaking, but it is precisely the most natural language learning process.
In fact, as long as children with normal intellectual development have the talent to learn languages. As long as language enlightenment can be carried out according to law, this talent can be brought into play.
Children aged 2~ 12 are in the process of brain development, learning foreign languages very fast and easy to understand. More importantly, children of this age have no restrictions on themselves. As long as it is entertaining and entertaining, it is easy to establish English thinking.