1. Definition of language education activities in kindergartens
Language education activities in kindergartens refer to the sum of language forms, language contents and language use taught by preschool education institutions. The goal is to cultivate children's language ability, that is, language understanding and expression ability. Children use language as a tool to understand the world around them. Therefore, it is very important to cultivate children's language ability. The application of information technology will improve the quality and efficiency of language education and promote the development of children's language ability.
2. Characteristics of traditional language education activities
Traditional language education plays a positive role in the development of children's language ability, and it has its own outstanding characteristics, which are as follows:
1) the form of language education. In the traditional language education activities, preschool teachers basically use three ways: telling stories, talking and looking at pictures to cultivate children's oral expression ability.
2) Language education activities are single in form. In traditional Chinese education activities, teachers basically use pictures, which are mainly single pictures and cartoons. No matter how rich the picture is, these two ways are static, and children like things with vitality. At the same time, using pictures and cartoons to talk about "short life cycle" cannot satisfy children's strong curiosity. Therefore, it is not convenient for children to express their feelings according to the content of the picture.
3) In the traditional kindergarten language education activities, the dialogue often revolves around a theme, and the description of this theme is only based on the children's life experience and imagination. Teachers often can't present rich images of things, which doesn't conform to children's cognitive characteristics.
4) In traditional language education activities, the physical images displayed by teachers are not vivid enough to be reprocessed, which will restrict children's thinking ability. At the same time, teachers often waste materials and energy when creating and designing physical images, and the amount of recycling is relatively small, which does not conform to the characteristics of modern teaching.
3. Advantages of information technology in kindergarten language education activities
Information technology can make up for the lack of formal language education activities in kindergartens.
1) Traditional kindergarten language education activities are the most common. Information technology means, including projectors, tape recorders, slide projectors, televisions and video recorders, can help language teaching to be more vivid and vivid. However, with the development of information technology industry, the original audio-visual education equipment is out of date, and its vitality is quietly declining. With the wide application of information technology, teachers can use information technology to create more forms and more novel images for children. It can not only strongly attract young children, but also enrich their imagination. In addition, children's activities have changed. Children can not only see the scene images synthesized by computer technology, but also realize the synchronization of sound and picture. On the one hand, it broadens children's horizons, on the other hand, it stimulates children's desire to learn again.
2) Information technology can free teachers from heavy work.
In traditional Chinese education activities, taking pictures as an example, teachers should first choose materials that are healthy and in line with children's existing cognitive level, and at the same time consider the operability of picture reproduction of story content; Secondly, it takes a long time for the teacher to describe this picture in order to arouse the children's interest; Finally, once the picture is completed, the teacher will not be able to change it, and it will not be easy to reuse it, resulting in a waste of manpower. At the same time, preservation is also difficult. Information technology can solve these problems, save teachers' time and improve work efficiency.
3) The application of information technology can help children form better information literacy from an early age.
Today, with the increasing prosperity of information technology, many educators consider making children have certain information literacy. In kindergartens, teachers will use information technology to solve children's knowledge problems and help children form good information literacy.
4. The concrete application of information technology in kindergarten language education activities
Strengthening the cultivation of preschool teachers' information literacy
1) Kindergarten teachers, whether they graduate from secondary preschool teachers' college or higher preschool teachers' college, only emphasize the study of professional theories and skills, while ignoring the study of information technology. From the current survey of preschool teachers, it is found that only a few preschool teachers can master and apply information technology skillfully. On the one hand, there is a lack of investment in kindergarten teacher training; On the other hand, the whole preschool education system does not attach importance to the application of information technology in preschool education and teaching activities. So the results are as follows: on the one hand, kindergartens with good conditions buy a lot of information technology equipment in order to expand the enrollment scale; On the other hand, preschool teachers lack information literacy, which makes these devices idle and wastes resources. Therefore, the application of information technology in kindergartens has a broad space.
2) The premise of the application of information technology in kindergarten language education activities is that teachers must fully understand the cognitive characteristics of children and the characteristics of information technology and find the best combination point.
Children's thinking is good at intuitive thinking, and children are often most interested in colorful, vivid and interesting things. And information technology has unique conditions when creating these images. Judging from children's love for cartoons, the application of information technology in teaching can well adapt to children's cognitive characteristics. So as to help children know and understand the truth, goodness and beauty and promote the healthy development of children's body and mind. For example, rabbits are the embodiment of kindness and diligence in the eyes of children. Teachers can use information technology to create a large number of vivid and interesting rabbit images for children, which can not only arouse children's interest, but also make children have a deeper understanding of the kind rabbit image, thus strengthening their understanding of "kindness" and "diligence".
In addition, when children know the objective world, they always perceive its external characteristics first, and then know its essence. Information technology can help children master the representation characteristics of the objective world, thus accurately raising perceptual knowledge to rational knowledge.
At the same time, in kindergarten teaching, the cultivation of children's practical ability is emphasized, but many specific operations in reality are not suitable for children's physiological and psychological characteristics, which often makes children unable to understand the process of things changing. Therefore, information technology can help teachers express complex physical or chemical changes in an intuitive form, which is convenient for teachers to explain and children to understand.
5. The prominent role of information technology in language education activities
Take wolves and sheep as examples;
In the language education activities of Wolf and Sheep in the middle class, the traditional teaching forms are as follows:
1) The teacher drew the cartoon Wolf and Sheep to show the story completely.
2) In order to enhance children's understanding of the story, the teacher made headdresses for children in the form of performance games.
The teaching process is as follows:
1) The teacher tells stories to the children in the comic book Wolf and Sheep.
2) Ask questions to familiarize children with the story.
3) Let the children retell the story.
4) Send headdresses to children, let them perform, and strengthen the understanding of the story.
5) Evaluate children's performance in activities.
Comparison between the shortcomings of traditional teaching and the advantages of teaching supported by modern information technology;
1) It takes a long time for teachers to draw cartoons, which wastes both materials and energy. Using information technology can save time and cost.
2) Whether the content in comic books is vivid or not depends on the teacher's painting level, and information technology can make up for the teacher's lack of painting level.
3) The teacher tells stories to children according to cartoons, which is single in form and inconvenient for children to fully understand the stories. The use of information technology makes the story more vivid and easy for children to understand. In addition, if the child doesn't understand a certain part of the story, the teacher can play it again and again for easy operation.
4) The complete integration of sound and painting liberates kindergarten teachers from some links to facilitate children's observation. However, in traditional teaching, teachers have no skills at once.
5) Teachers can reprocess the teaching content for reuse and storage.