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Characteristics of English Education for Preschool Children
First, learn intuitively through actions, expressions or intuitive images.

Because of the characteristics of preschool children's intuitive action thinking and concrete image thinking, their thinking mainly depends on the concrete image, representation and association of representations of things, which is intuitive and vivid. This intuitive and vivid thinking mode of children makes it impossible for children to learn a language without specific objects, actions and situations. Therefore, in most cases, children understand and express language suggestions through intuitive actions, rich expressions or specific situations. At the same time, this intuitive and vivid way of thinking makes children's language learning natural, and they are not clearly aware that they are learning a language. They will take the initiative to understand and express their own words, so as to exchange information and feelings with others. They don't think about what language is, but care about the function of language, that is, how to use language to achieve the purpose of communication.

Second, expand children's English experience by integrating learning content in related fields.

Preschool education is a comprehensive systematic project. Through education, children can get beneficial development in healthy language, society, science, art and other fields. English education is a sub-project in the language field. Every progress in children's English learning will promote children's language development and all-round physical and mental development. Therefore, in preschool children's English learning activities, we should organically combine the learning contents of other related fields and make overall arrangements for language learning activities according to the overall goal of kindergarten curriculum, so that Fengtai basic people can effectively integrate into the overall kindergarten curriculum, and create a good language environment and learning environment for children while developing their language ability and cognitive ability, enriching their knowledge and experience. Let children link English with their mother tongue in learning and gradually expand their English experience, which is recommended by Fengtai Road Zero Basic English Training Institute as the coordinated development of emotional, cognitive and social skills.

Third, English learning has a silent period.

The research results of mother tongue acquisition show that children learn to obey first, and then learn to speak, read and write. Parr, a British education expert, acquiesced: "Children can only speak their mother tongue after a brewing stage." During this period of silence, the input of foreign words gradually accumulates in children's minds, forming a subconscious mind, and then gradually calling English to awaken the language information in the brain, which is the preparatory stage for children's language use (understanding and expression). When this preparation accumulates to a certain extent, under the influence of the external communication environment, children begin to understand and speak a lot. It can be seen from the training that children's listening ability far exceeds their oral ability, which comes from listening ability, and the level of oral ability is restricted by the level of listening development. The silent period of children's language learning is mainly manifested in the following aspects: there is a time interval from understanding the first sentence to speaking the first sentence; There is still a time interval from understanding a sentence to speaking it, which is especially obvious when children learn a second language. When children learn their mother tongue, they show a deep recommendation and a quiet period. Longer, the silent period when learning a second language is relatively short.

Affinity motivation is the main motivation of children's language learning.

Children's learning the first language is related to their survival and life, which belongs to a natural motivation. This kind of natural motivation is produced by human social relations and social actual needs, and it is a psychological and emotional need. This natural motivation is affinity motivation. The so-called affinity motivation means that learners are in a specific language environment, in order to adapt to this language environment as soon as possible, become a member of the language group, actively learn and master the language, and finally realize self-improvement and self-realization in the group. It can be seen that affinity motivation has directional significance and is related to the success or failure of language learning. Because of the poor independence of training, children in Fengtai are attached to their parents at home. In kindergarten, they mainly depend on teachers and their collectives, and they get a sense of security from their parents, teachers and peers. When children are in a second language environment, in order not to lose their original sense of security, they will actively "play this new language game" and strive to master the "rules of the game". They don't necessarily regard second language learning as a learning task, but the recommendation form of Fengtai Road Zero Basic English Training Institute regards it as a way to participate in game activities, gain love and security, meet needs and get rewards.