Cartoons are controversial because more and more children in China are addicted to them, as if they were addicted. It is true that animation provides entertainment, but more functions seem to be negative. I often hear many parents say, "My children never watch cartoons!" Words are full of pride.
Dialectical thinking is an invincible ideological sword. We also need to look at the animation problem dialectically, and everything is too much.
If a child is addicted to animation every day and refuses to move for half an hour or more, then it can be concluded that the baby is addicted. Obviously, the negative effect of animation is the chief culprit of this result.
If we make rational use of animation and make it a sharp weapon for our enlightenment, the positive role of animation will be revealed.
Now, we analyze English animation from the following three angles.
1. Is English animation necessary for English enlightenment? Can you not need it?
2. How to make rational use of animation, give full play to its advantages and maximize its advantages?
3. Introduce the comic classification and stage recommendation collected by Xiaomaoren English Reading Hall in recent months.
First, the characteristics of animation
Animation has the following characteristics:
1. The cartoon sound effect is very realistic;
2. The scene is real;
3. Life-oriented words;
4. The speech speed is too fast (the normal speech speed of native speakers does not adjust the speech speed for non-native speakers, nor does it slow down for us second language learners).
These four points are the local characteristics of animation.
Let your mind fly a little more, evaluate the animation as a whole, and you can say:
English animation provides an input environment for learners who can't contact the second language (English) for a long time. Children can watch the animation, imitate the real dialogue between real scenes and characters, and feel the application of language in real life.
Realistic sound effects of animation can attract children's attention; Real scenes can make children more truly realize how words are applied in real scenes; The two characteristics of lively words and fast speech speed determine that animation audio must lag behind other types of audio (graded reading audio, picture book audio, children's song audio) in order to participate in the learners' acquisition process.
Please pay attention! Here's a hint:
The order involved in the acquisition of graded reading audio, picture book audio, children's song audio and animation audio is irreversible. This is determined by their own audio characteristics.
Every sentence of graded audio reading is a patterned sentence, and almost every book is applying a fixed pattern. The design of the basic level and the preparatory level is to apply certain fixed sentence patterns and change only one word in the middle of the sentence to make the children sound easier to understand.
The audio sentence patterns of picture books are lively and interesting, and the order is after the audio of graded books.
Children's songs are lively, rhythmic, vivid and simple, usually accompanied by cartoons or books to help children understand. Children like them better and must put them before cartoons.
Learning is hierarchical. It is necessary to have graded reading materials, picture books and children's songs as the basis to enter the stage of animation ear grinding.
Is comics an indispensable material for children's enlightenment?
In fact, no material is absolutely necessary. However, if some materials are lacking, the acquisition process may not be smooth.
What is the meaning of animated audio? Only after a lot of animated audio grinding, children are most likely to produce more natural sentences in the shortest time.
The implication is that it is difficult for children to achieve the degree of free output and free dialogue simply by grinding their ears with graded reading materials and picture book audio. If you accumulate these two stages and add animation audio, it is like adding a booster to the rocket, and the child can take off soon.
Why? As mentioned at the beginning, the animation language is very vivid and the scene application is very real, so children can easily get how the words used in animation are applied in real life.
At the same time, the attraction of animated audio to children comes from their love of cartoons. For example, children will be very interested in playing cartoons that have been watched or not, and they can listen to them for more than 20 minutes or even 40 minutes. After a long period and a lot of polishing, the "English ear" can really take shape, and the previous accumulation can change qualitatively and finally break out.
Second, children's favorite cartoons are good materials for grinding their ears.
Although children's favorite cartoons are often the biggest motivation for children to like animated audio, it is not the cartoons that children like that are the most suitable materials for grinding their ears. If the difficulty is not properly controlled, it is very likely that the ear grinding will be invalid.
Paw patrol ("Wang Wang Team Made Great Achievements"), my pony ("Little Pony") and little pink pig ("Little Pig"). These three cartoons are English cartoons imported from China.
I believe Baba Ma is no stranger to these three cartoons. Most children have seen at least the translated Chinese versions of these three cartoons, and when they arrive at the library, they will be eager to find English picture books corresponding to the cartoons.
How is the effect of grinding ears? It depends on the difficulty of the corresponding picture book.
The audio difficulty of these three animations is different: the difficulty of Little Pink Pig, Paw Patrol and My Little Pony is increasing in turn. Claw patrol has three sets of corresponding picture books, one is a natural story, and the other two are narrative stories. Little pink pig picture book is easy and difficult. Children have a strong ability to see pictures. If the materials are not chosen properly, children have to understand the animation through pictures and close their ears. Language does not play an auxiliary role and is not careful, resulting in invalid input.
Some parents think that Little Pink Pig is very simple. Just have a short conversation, five minutes, and just use it to grind your ears. If you don't have a comprehensive understanding of the material, it is easy to have such a misunderstanding (the reason is very heartfelt). In fact, there are many simpler animations than Little Pink Pig, but some people just don't know it. If the child has no foundation, Little Pink Pig will grind her ears with it.
Third, how can animation be used by us?
If animation grinding ears is the booster that ultimately promotes children's output, how to make animation play its greatest role?
From the following two angles.
1. Angle of resource selection
When choosing resources, we must follow the order from easy to difficult. According to my experience, first of all, children's song animation is more suitable for zero-based children's enlightenment. The concept of nursery rhymes was explained last time. Even nursery rhymes are difficult, so let's start with simple nursery rhymes animation.
There is a kind of children's song animation, which does not make children's songs into dynamic pictures like traditional children's songs. Just like old MacDonald had a farm. There are several cartoons in Korea that are particularly brilliant. They disassemble the meaning of children's songs whose lyrics sound obscure and make them into small animations for a few minutes. First, the story of children's songs is disassembled. The front part is the animation interpretation, and the back part is the whole song interpretation.
Children can further understand the lyrics of the animation by understanding the disassembled animation. Therefore, even difficult children's songs can be changed from difficult to easy, and children can deepen their understanding by watching videos.
For example, in an animated film, the protagonist is Cocomong. He took the children to understand the music world, contacted different musical instruments and used them in a scene. Finally, these instruments play the familiar I am a Musician together.
In addition, the length of animation and the complexity of the plot can basically be used as a preliminary basis for judging the difficulty of animation. This article applies to 80% of the cases. The duration of foreign animation is strictly limited. Five-minute animation is generally suitable for children in the enlightenment stage, and their cognitive level and acceptance ability will also be considered in the plot design. Therefore, when looking for suitable animations other than nursery rhymes, we can find small animations with shorter time and less complicated plot as enlightenment materials. For example, Maisy's Playhouse (Mouse Bobo and His Friends), Wibbly Pig, Peppa Pig and so on.
2. Use method angle
The choice of resources is not important, because the use of methods is more important than the choice of resources.
First of all, we must know that animation is not suitable for zero-based children to directly intervene. Because even simple cartoons are difficult for children with zero foundation. Considering the children's understanding and absorption, museum students need six months to one year to get involved in animated short films. Before that, all children's songs were enlightenment animations.
Secondly, don't give children too many cartoons to choose from at once (no more than two cartoons). Because if too many cartoons are provided at the same time, children will be at a loss. In the process of choosing, they can't watch any cartoon from beginning to end.
We encourage children to watch an animated cartoon for a period of time, because the high-frequency vocabulary, plot, characters and scenes in an animated cartoon will appear repeatedly in every episode, and children will gradually realize their acquisition in this constant repetition. If there are too many choices and an animation is not deeply understood, it will be difficult to reap the fruits of learning.
Why provide two at a time? Remember, we should provide children with limited freedom. Don't let children choose at will, but don't limit their choice ability too much. Because only the child is given a certain choice, he thinks it is meaningful. Without a little choice and control, he won't like it.
Don't change the animation too quickly. Change an animation almost once a month. The premise is that children watch animation for no more than 20 minutes every day. For example, 20 minutes of animation time every day, 5 minutes of an episode, you can watch 4 episodes, and you can watch an animation every month.
What should children do if they watch their favorite episode repeatedly? We accept and allow him to watch an animation again and again. If you watch this episode of animation too much (for example, 20 or 30 times) and the young audience has no intention of giving up, you should encourage him to choose a new episode. If you watch 10 eight times, you don't have to intervene. We often find that after watching an episode repeatedly, one day, he will narrate the animation from beginning to end, arousing great surprises in parents' hearts.
When children's listening is advanced to a certain extent, they don't need to watch every episode of an animation. For example, after watching the 20 episodes of 10, children can be encouraged to listen to the animation with a speaker. Of course, this requires a lot of effective accumulation in the early stage.
From "reading before listening" to "listening naked".
What do you mean, listen after reading it? For example, children should listen to animated audio as soon as possible after watching some episodes of animation or watching 20 episodes of an animation in a season. The reason is simple: when the child has a deep memory and is still interested in cartoons, he will use audio to boost it in time. After several months of "watching and listening", children's listening will be greatly improved. In the next stage, you can try to transition to naked listening.
What is naked listening? Even if children know nothing about animation and characters in animation, they can directly understand the content of animation audio. This process takes a year, a year and a half or even two years to precipitate. When a child can listen to an animation naked, his hearing will rise to a certain height, and the range of books he can read and choose is quite wide.
Fourthly, the types of animation.
There are many types of animation, and I tend to divide them from the perspective of children's advanced order of acquisition.
Conventional animation and a few minutes animation are easy to understand, that is, through the division of animation time and content, we can confirm which animation is suitable for young children, which animation is suitable for advanced children and which animation is suitable for improving children.
Knock on the blackboard and underline the key points! This paper focuses on teaching animation and popular science animation.
What is teaching animation? That is to say, the teaching is relatively strong, and a certain topic is usually explained by a teacher or commentator, accompanied by relevant performance animation, and interpreted by real people, virtual characters or fictional animal images.
For example.
Disney World in American English has always been my favorite picture book.
The acoustics of this set of books are particularly good. Many pictures, words and small contents in the book can be clicked and read, which is particularly exquisite.
This teaching animation language is very simple. Even if there are only a few words, if you can read them slowly from low order to high order, you can still understand the content. In addition, its arrangement and design are more scientific, so it is very effective to use these teaching animations for enlightenment.
What is picture book animation? The so-called picture book animation means that the whole story series has both supporting picture books and supporting animations. Children can read a book after watching the animation, or watch the animation after reading the book, which will have a sense of closeness. In a word, picture book animation is a supporting enlightenment resource.
Do you know the big rabbit and the small rabbit in Guess how much I love you? You may not think that this famous "Guess how much I love you" is actually an animation, and it is not difficult, which is probably equivalent to the difficulty of two picture books in the museum.
This kind of picture book animation will be more popular with children. The children watched the animation first, and then they could put it down. Or finish reading the book first, and then put it down. Therefore, the comprehensive effect of picture book animation is very obvious, which is more suitable for enlightenment. However, the difficulty of picture book animation varies, some are simple and some are difficult.
For example, Mouse Bobo and His Friends (with supporting books and animations) is relatively simple and suitable for younger children. It is difficult to guess how much I love you, but it is moderately difficult. Only children with at least one year's reading experience can understand it, so animation is relatively difficult.
But it is not that animation is difficult, and books must be difficult. For example, the comic language of "Little Pony" is very, very difficult, and the speech speed is super fast and unconstrained. However, the difficulty of the graded reading materials in the library is very well controlled, and the difficulty increases from 1 to 4, especially the first-stage difficulty book, which can be understood by beginners.
The Classification and Recommendation of verb (abbreviation of verb) English Animation
As for the recommendation of advanced animation, you can personally trust me to understand.
The first stage: teaching animation recommendation.
Tutitu is a teaching resource in Korea. The language is simple, and it is diversified according to the theme (such as color, shape, numbers, weather, etc.). ). Each episode tells a theme. There are not many languages in this teaching form, and words are the main ones. Because there are not many languages, some children will like it. However, parents and friends may not have so much patience, and may think that all animations have no language, but what children can really absorb is often these words, so keep a good attitude and wait for flowers to bloom.
I just mentioned Disney World in American English, so I won't go into details. There are also resources in China, so you can contact me if necessary.
Numtums is a teaching animation of children's mathematics, which tells the numbers below 1 to 10. Is a teaching animation, through the game between several numbers to teach, so that children have the most basic sense of numbers.
The first stage: children's song animation recommendation.
The nursery rhymes animation here does not refer to the video nursery rhymes mentioned in the last lesson. Children's song animation is a form to explain the story through the animation of one image.
This kind of animation is done most in Korea, and Cocomon, Dave and Ava are all Korean animated children's songs. Liao Caixing's video nursery rhymes are difficult and do not belong to real animation. In fact, it is closer to video nursery rhymes, which are listed here for you to choose from.
COCOMONG's children's songs are not many, but they are all very classic children's songs.
The first stage: 5 minutes of small animation recommendation (level 1).
The recommendation is simple. For example, kipper the Dog itself is a picture book animation, with a supporting picture book, which is characterized by simplicity and slow speed.
Maisy's dollhouse has both books and animations. It was first produced in 2004 and updated in 2008. Until now, it has been popular with children. The problem is that only part of the audio of picture books is original audio, and the rest are read by foreign teachers or China people, so the original audio of each book in this set cannot be collected completely. However, because the plot is simple, parents can watch it by themselves, and with supporting animation, the Playhouse in Maisy is still quite popular.
As soon as Pokoyo heard the name, she knew that it was made in North Korea, similar to Maisy's toy house, perhaps simpler.
Tom and Kerry (not Tom and Jerry) is a simple story about the daily life of a bear. It was specially made for children with a second language, and it was made on 20 14, which is relatively new to the playhouse in Maisy.
Twirlywoos is similar to this type. "Little Blue Koala" is a five-minute animation with a long history, but children still like it.
Stage 1: 5-minute animation recommendation (level 2).
The second stage of the first stage is still five minutes, which is more difficult than the first stage, including many familiar animations. For example, Carl's Car Wash, Humf (the protagonist is a hairy monster, similar to Kayou, but more cartoon than Kayou), Max the Glow Train》(STEM theme, that is, instilling popular science knowledge, is a relatively new theme in recent years), Sara and Duck (the story of a little girl and a duckling, the duckling is a friend of the little girl, and the cartoon is very short.
The second stage: 10 minute small animation recommendation.
There are too many contents in the second stage, only less than 1/3 is listed. When children reach this stage, or parents have any needs, you can trust me privately and send resources for free.
For example, "Guess how much I love you" is an animation, divided into several seasons.
Some parents will use Dora the Explorer to grind their children's ears at first, but it is very difficult, ranking second in the museum and not suitable for zero foundation; There are already many kinds of animations in front, which need to be input to children in advance. Without these foreshadowing, it is difficult to understand Dora the Explorer.
The third stage: 20 minutes of regular animation recommendation.
There are many animations in the third stage, and only a few familiar ones can be selected for display.
For example, in Octonauts, characters often imitate the slang used by sailors and crew members and the strange tones of different small animals, which is difficult for children with poor English hearing to understand.
Go Diego Go ("Little Hero Diego") is Dora's companion piece. Dora is a general and common-sense cartoon, but Go Diego Go is a kind of natural popular science, and each episode is about popular science with different themes, so it is more difficult than Dora.
In the third stage, there are many cartoons about medical science popularization, mechanical science popularization and safety education, which have higher cognitive requirements for children. Moreover, the cartoons in the third stage are all more than 20 minutes, and the list may only be 1/3. There are more resources. Welcome to get them by private mail.