When children learn their mother tongue, they start with listening, get familiar with the sound of the language, accumulate enough listening vocabulary, and then expand to reading and writing skills. English acquisition is linked with mother tongue, and it is not too late to learn to read and write after listening.

Moreover, English is a phonetic symbol, and the spelling and pronunciation of words are closely related. So listening first can lay a solid foundation for developing other skills later.

Therefore, children's English enlightenment-especially in the initial and early stages-should be listened to more and repeatedly. Get the necessary input from listening, so as to gain new vocabulary and new knowledge.

Interest comes first.

Learned in the unconscious

English enlightenment emphasizes acquisition, not learning. The so-called acquisition is to acquire knowledge unconsciously in a pleasant state.

What is the child's greatest interest? Fairy tales? Planes and trains? Adventure story? Parents must know best. Please choose topics that children are interested in and materials with appropriate difficulty, so that children can be immersed in a happy state, so that the absorption efficiency is definitely the highest: children can not only improve their cognitive level, but also absorb new languages imperceptibly.

The input must be understandable.

The sound we don't understand is pure noise, and our brains will naturally filter it out. Imagine putting you in the audio of a foreign language you don't understand at all (such as Icelandic) and reading books written in Icelandic to you (lack of interactive environment). No matter how long you smoke, you can't speak Icelandic, can you?

Similarly, the input to children must be understandable-in layman's terms, "don't be afraid of translation." Since we can't provide children with an interactive mother tongue environment, we have to accept the fact that English is a foreign language and a second language. Be bold in translating and explaining, so that children can understand the input. The pronunciation that can be understood after translation and explanation is meaningful to children, so it is meaningful to increase input.

Strictly control the difficulty

step by step

Choosing input materials for children can achieve the highest use efficiency, that is, children can acquire a small amount of new knowledge and new languages every day on the basis of the existing level, and the knowledge they have learned and new knowledge are repeatedly circulated and spiraled. And this is the great significance of using graded reading materials. I have written many articles about graded reading materials before, because we really realized through personal experience that language teaching experts have prepared meals for us according to the difficulty level, and we only need to unlock them step by step with graded reading materials. As long as you persist, your child's progress is tangible.

Therefore, in the initial stage of English enlightenment, we should pay attention to the significance of graded reading. It is ok to make children "full" and use several sets as supplements at the same time, but at least at the beginning, we should choose an excellent set of graded reading materials and stick to it on this basis. Children can naturally and smoothly improve their learning difficulty and ability in this step-by-step learning.

Make full use of spare time

Multi-means three-dimensional "baking"

In addition to taking a fixed time every day to listen to and read graded books together, parents can also play audio with understandable content during their time on the way to school, in go on road trip and playing with their children. At the same time, we can also use cartoons, games and other resources to let children learn in entertainment and review in play. In short, a foreign language emphasizes a lot of input, and vocabulary is not a problem when measuring, pronunciation is not a problem, and oral English will not be a problem.

Hold on! Hold on!

Many parents report that it seems that the method is right, but it will have no effect if it persists for a period of time. I want to say: dear parents, foreign language is actually the simplest subject, because as long as the method is right, persistence will definitely have an effect. Every child has a period of silence, long or short. We should respect their silence period. Just like the mother tongue, babies can't talk for a long time! But we must believe that children are actually making progress silently every day, and one day they will make rapid progress when they open their mouths.

So, as long as the method is proper, please continue to stick to it silently! We don't insist on seeing hope, we insist on seeing hope!