For example, Jack, a student with average English level, read for 20 minutes every day, and after 10 months, he achieved fruitful results:
By reviewing his learning process, we can find that:
1. In a story "Joe and the Bicycle" that Jack read in his early years, the story included "What a rider." And "Come on." With illustrations, Jack can acquire the language naturally in his overall perception of the story situation.
2. 10 Reading 20 minutes a day and reading more than 300 original books a year, Jack cultivated his English thinking and promoted the all-round development of his language ability by persisting in a large amount of accumulation.
3. In writing, Jack can vividly render the horrible atmosphere with "olfactory fear", which is very expressive. Jack can have such vivid and authentic language output, which comes from absorbing a lot of original English.
Cultivation of imagination and creativity: Use stories to develop children's oral expression and creativity. Stories give children wings of imagination.
For example:
(Excerpted from Stuck in the Mud of the Oxford Reading Tree)
When guiding children to read this story, they can be inspired to think, "Why do sheep get stuck in the mud?" According to the picture of the story, let the children develop rich associations and imagination, and express their imagination through language.
Cultivation of thinking ability: Stories and literary works provide support for the cultivation of thinking ability, because there are characters, plots and emotions in stories.
Stories can train children's multiple thinking abilities, including analysis, evaluation and creation.
Usually, we will help children better understand stories, express their personal views on the basis of understanding, stimulate children's imagination and creativity, and create their own works through the ten learning methods of "listening, imitating, reading aloud, performing, repeating, discussing, commenting, rewriting, continuing or creating".
Intercultural understanding ability
Cultural encyclopedia plays a very important role in cultivating children's cultural literacy and humanistic literacy, but it is often ignored by teachers and parents.
Excellent original English stories and literary works must contain a large number of cultural encyclopedias. For example, cultural encyclopedias such as The Tooth Fairy and Robin Hood help children form cross-cultural awareness.
Robin Hood, a hero in English folklore. According to legend, he was active in England from 1 160 to 1247, and was called the Earl of Huntington. He is a chivalrous man who robs the rich and helps the poor.
Give children the right to remain silent and let them fall in love with English reading.
Krashen, a linguist, found that when children acquire their mother tongue, they have to go through the process of "listening" for about one year (silent period) before they can say the first word. This rule also applies to second language acquisition. The length of the silent period varies from person to person.
Just like we learn Chinese in primary school, we usually don't speak until we are 1 year old. Under the guidance and stimulation of parents and people around us, we gradually learned to say simple words, which can be called "dad" and "mom", and finally developed to speak complete sentences. The same is true of second language acquisition, which will go through a period of silence ranging from several months to 1 year.
For children who are in the period of language silence, it is necessary to create an all-English environment and cultivate their sense of language, including the feelings of pronunciation and intonation, through interesting interaction with children. In the meantime, don't expect your children to speak English quickly and put pressure on them to learn. Parents should not ask, "What did you learn in class today?" Act out some English words you have learned. " .....
A little more patience, a little more encouragement, and walking through the silent period with children will make it possible for children to speak English boldly.
Parents and Teachers: Creating Constant "Growth Desire" for Children
Whether at home or at school, children's reading literacy is closely related to adults. What children read and absorb; What kind of books you read have what kind of qualities.
So parents read authentic English to their children, and children absorb fresh and authentic English. In addition, a little difference in early education will make a huge difference in children's adulthood. /kloc-before the age of 0/2, it is a critical period for children's language learning. As parents, it is very important for them to pay more attention to their children's future.
It can be seen from the growth track of many masters that a good family education is very important for a person's growth and development. In this process, parents need to encourage and guide their children with love and companionship. In addition, family education should attach importance to humanistic literacy, because humanistic literacy is like the root of the big tree of "life". Only when it is deeply rooted can it flourish.
Regarding language learning, john dewey, a famous American educator, once said: "Education is growth, and it has no other purpose except itself." Therefore, both teachers and parents should conform to the law of children's growth, guide them at an appropriate time, help children lay a good foundation for a foreign language with a large number of authentic English stories and literary works, and satisfy their "growth desire".
Soft English is a place of dreams.
We always believe that through hard work, we can change our destiny.
We always believe that through perseverance, we can solve more learning problems for everyone.
We always believe that time will prove that we can find a way suitable for children's English learners.