Regarding English enlightenment, if I only choose one book, I will definitely recommend Teacher Gai Zhaoquan's Being the Best English Learning Planner for Children, because it is really practical.
Let's look at a picture first.
0.5- 1 year-old is the sensitive period of baby's voice discrimination, which means that no matter what language you teach him at this time, he can fully accept it. Speaking Chinese and English is a language input for babies.
So from birth, English enlightenment can begin.
So what should we do at this stage of 0-3 years old? I call it the initial stage of enlightenment.
Enlightenment must follow the steps of "listening, speaking, reading and writing", so we must spend more energy on listening to the baby.
In the book, Mr. Gai introduced in detail how children aged 3 ~ 12 should learn English. See the picture below, and you can sit down accordingly.
Here are two concepts, learning and acquisition. We always say that we should study hard, but study and study are two different things.
Teacher Gai emphasized in the book that both learning and acquisition are indispensable, family is the main force of acquisition, and enrolling in extracurricular classes is learning.
After all, in China, under the environment of exam-oriented education, we should learn systematically through extracurricular classes, so that children can understand and pass the exam.
The advantage of extracurricular classes is that teachers can professionally explain grammar and write such things. These parents are not professional enough, so we will give them to the teacher. On the other hand, there are classmates and teachers in the classroom to communicate with. We learn language only for communication, and children's effective output can be exercised in this process.
The answer is yes. In addition to the standard of pronunciation and intonation, foreign teachers are superior to Chinese teachers, and there are some idioms that China people can't understand unless they have lived abroad for a long time.
However, there is also a prerequisite for choosing a foreign teacher, that is, the child's listening vocabulary of at least 1000 words can be effectively input into foreign teacher courses.
At the same time, when choosing a foreign teacher, you must listen to the audition and pronunciation, and see the quality and effect of the course. Because some foreigners use the banner of foreign teachers, their pronunciation may not be standard.
Here are some suggestions for you. Everyone has seen and listened to American TV shows and English listening, and the pronunciation in them is all right. If listening to this foreign teacher has a feeling of watching American dramas, it is generally not wrong.
In addition, the curriculum is very important. Some foreign teachers just play with their children, without teaching materials and continuity of courses. This is absolutely impossible, so be sure to listen.
Sure, I'll give you two choices.
First, study. Instead of complaining about poor pronunciation, you might as well study with me. If you can enlighten your baby and learn English well at the same time, you can kill two birds with one stone.
Second, even if you are not confident in yourself or have no time to study, don't give up learning and throw your children directly to extracurricular classes. Now picture books and graded reading materials have corresponding audio and video, or you can use a point reading pen to let children learn with the original sound recording.
But Mr. Gai also stressed that parents are the best reading pens for children, so I am constantly learning English and correcting my pronunciation. I belong to English scum, but I quickly learned American pronunciation in two months, and so can you.
Graded reading materials are independent reading materials for foreign children to learn reading and learning knowledge after primary school. Pictures are not as good as picture books, but words are the key. The difference between them is that picture books are like poems, and graded reading materials are like textbooks. One is appreciation, and the other is learning.
Teacher Gai said that the original English picture book is not suitable for China baby enlightenment. I've bought hundreds of copies, and I'm crying my eyes out.
However, picture books are not completely denied. At first, you can learn with graded reading materials. Of course, if you accumulate to a certain extent, you can read poetry. Picture books can better supplement graded reading materials on interesting and exquisite pictures, and are also the best choice for parent-child reading.
When I was at school, my English was poor. My mother listened to the teacher's suggestion and woke me up with an English tape as an alarm clock every day, which is euphemistically called "improving my listening and practicing my sense of language". However, instead of improving my English, I listened to the repeater badly.
I don't know if you have such an experience, or want to grind your baby's ears like this. There is a saying here, money! Wan! Don't! Yes!
It is necessary to learn English to listen to the original sound, but you can't listen blindly, that is, listen to nothing. Don't talk about children, I'll give you a strange English song. How many times do you have to listen to the lyrics before you can understand it?
Goethe once said, "People who don't know a foreign language can't really understand their mother tongue." Learning a foreign language can help children understand Chinese better.
For a simple example, we learn Chinese from Pinyin. Many English pronunciations are actually very similar to Pinyin, and English pronunciation is more exaggerated. If the baby can master English pronunciation, pinyin learning will naturally come.
As a universal language, English is actually the same as mathematics. Since Chinese and mathematics do not conflict, how can English and Chinese conflict? On the contrary, the two can promote each other and make progress together.
Now the training class plays a great role in natural spelling, claiming that you can read words when you see them.
In fact, natural spelling is a tool for learning to read, not for memorizing and reading words.
At this time, you need to learn phonetic symbols and use dictionary tools as a supplement.
It is necessary to increase vocabulary through a lot of reading, so that listening vocabulary can be transformed into words that can be used for writing, which not only solves the problem of pronunciation, but also solves the problem of spelling.
Choose a fixed time to watch it every day, within 20 minutes, also to protect your eyes.
In the choice of cartoons, the difficulty should be gradual, so that children can understand. The advantage of cartoons over books is that children can understand the meaning according to the movements and expressions of the characters in them, which is a good input.
Parents should not leave cartoons and children alone there, and don't forget our initial intention of enlightenment in order to accompany them efficiently.
Especially in the early stage, parents should preview and watch with their babies. Difficult meanings can be explained in Chinese, but also pay attention to vocabulary, try to apply it to life, so that children can master words quickly.
This is a commonplace question. My views have always been clear. English enlightenment is not about how high children can get in English exams in the future. I hope she can master this skill.
I am deeply touched that 95% of scientific research papers in the world are written in English. During the postgraduate period, both theoretical study and experimental methods were completed by consulting literature, most of which were English literature. At that time, it was really painful to learn.
Mastering two languages is to better explore the world and find more interesting content.
English enlightenment is a long road, which cannot be achieved overnight. What parents have to do is to persist and persist, and there will always be a surprise day.
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