First, the status of children's language education
(A) the concept of education lags behind
At present, many preschool teachers still use traditional teaching methods in language teaching, which leads children to passively accept knowledge. In this way, children can neither master effective methods of learning languages, but also rely more on teachers. Therefore, this passive teaching method not only stifles children's thirst for knowledge, but also greatly reduces their enthusiasm. This can't achieve the function of developing children's language potential.
(B) theory and teaching practice can not be effectively combined
Kindergarten teachers can't effectively combine children's language knowledge with children's life practice in the daily teaching process, which leads to a serious disconnect between theory and teaching practice. Therefore, most children lack language practice in communication with others, which greatly reduces their ability to explore independently.
(C) vague teaching objectives
Judging from years of teaching practice, many teachers' teaching objectives are not clear enough, and they basically teach for the sake of teaching, without giving full play to their subjective initiative. You can't or seldom use the new methods and achievements of preschool language education research to enrich your teaching experience. In addition, due to the lack of comprehensive language application ability, some teachers cannot effectively penetrate children's language education into other disciplines, which indirectly restricts the effect of children's language skills learning.
Second, suggestions to improve the level of children's language education
(A) focus on cultivating children's communicative language skills
For children's language education, we must pay attention to the cultivation of children's oral expression, emotional experience and cognitive ability. On this basis, we should also pay attention to stimulating children's interest in language learning. In this process, we should also pay attention to the diversified development of children's communication. Children's language communication ability can be improved through the following aspects:
1. Cultivate their sense of purpose
For example, in the process of communication, give children different goals, such as who to communicate with and what to communicate with. In this way, consciously cultivate their sense of purpose.
2. The teaching content must be close to the children's life.
Teaching design must be close to children's real life, mainly focusing on their common communication events, which is more conducive to children's acceptance.
3. Target requirements should be diversified
The specific activities of teaching design should ensure that children acquire knowledge in specific activities such as cognition, understanding, operation and action.
Provide more opportunities for children's language communication. Because of the improvement of oral ability, it is inseparable from practical practice. Therefore, teachers should try their best to create more language communication opportunities for them. Only in this way can we promote the diversity of children's communicative language. In addition, we should also pay attention to cultivating children's vocabulary accumulation. Because any language needs vocabulary to support. Only when children have certain communicative vocabulary can they express their emotions and enhance their communicative competence.
(B) strengthen the training of children's "listening" ability.
"Listening" here refers not only to the sensory ability of the ear, but also to the understanding ability of the child. In language communication, human beings not only need to listen to different sounds or read different words, but also need to understand the meanings of these sounds and words. People will be exposed to various sounds from birth, and at the same time, they will use these sounds to understand the surrounding environment, and finally gradually form their own understanding. Therefore, teachers can use physical objects, supplemented by language explanations, to help children understand things and numbers, and then enhance children's understanding of abstract things and language expression ability. At the same time, teachers can also combine some personal experiences of children as the theme and write various short stories to enrich children's abstract language. For example, you can tell them a short story: When Xiaoming went to kindergarten yesterday, he didn't want his mother to send him, but he came with Xiaolan's sister. But on the way, he accidentally fell down. Although the fall was painful and his knee was skinned, he was brave. Instead of crying, he stood up and rushed to the kindergarten. We should learn from Xiaoming.
(C) pay attention to the infiltration of language education in other courses
Language education should not only be confined to the classroom, but also permeate other courses and extracurricular activities of children. In this way, language education can be extended to all areas of children's lives to ensure that language learning can be carried out anytime and anywhere.
1. Integrating language training into children's general knowledge teaching
For example, knowing rabbits, children will be very excited to see cute rabbits. At this time, the teacher can guide them to talk about the cuteness of the white rabbit and why it is cute. You can also let the child say a word to the white rabbit. In this way, children not only know rabbits in a pleasant atmosphere, but also exercise their oral expression ability.
2. Integrate language training into art education.
Children's world is a colorful world. They are naturally fond of playing, drawing and making by hand. Therefore, we can use art education to train their language. Teachers can make them tell their own works. For example, in the art activities with the theme of "Beautiful Spring", teachers can let children describe their works simply in their own words: some will say, "There are all kinds of colorful flowers in spring", while others will say, "Birds will sing in the branches" ... Through these activities, they can not only cultivate their perception of beauty, but also exercise their oral expression ability.
3. Integrate language training into music activities.
Music can cultivate people's sentiments. Children will also have great interest in music. When we teach music appreciation, we can let children feel and understand music works comprehensively, and at the same time let children tell them simply. For example, when enjoying the famous song "Four Little Swan", the teacher can give the following guidance: "How do you feel after listening to the music?" Some people will say, "There seems to be a little swan dancing here." Yes They also said, "They are lovely and happy."
4. Integrate language training into mathematics teaching.
Computational activities in mathematics can also effectively cultivate children's language expression ability. For example, when learning geometry, they are free to use geometry to do puzzles. Then describe the graphics you spell and use. Some said, "This is a bird"; Someone said, "mine is the underwater world." ; Others say, "This is the home of the duckling" ... so that in the process of playing, computing teaching and language teaching are effectively combined.
5. Integrate language training into physical education.
In the process of children's physical education teaching, we can use this method to learn children's songs related to games before games. For example, before the game "the eagle catches the chicken" begins, the teacher teaches the children to read together. "The eagle flies in the sky, the chicken runs on the ground, and the eagle catches the chicken, but it can't catch it." After reading it, start the game. Besides, after the game, children can talk about how they did it. This teaching method not only follows the activity principle of alternating movement and static movement required in the regulations, but also enables children to cultivate their oral English ability in actual activity experience.
Children's language education methods
It is best for children to learn a foreign language before they are 6 years old.
When is the best time for children to learn English? Many experts are quite sure that early childhood, especially before the age of 6, is the best time to learn a foreign language.
Children's recognition of foreign languages is related to the development of their cognitive ability. The research of children's psychology shows that in the development of children's consciousness, the ability of thinking in images is the first to mature. Whether children recognize Chinese characters or English, it is actually an activity to stimulate information. They regard glyphs as a specific image and remember them like candy, toys and people's thoughts. After many iterations, this special "image" is stored in the brain. So there is a big difference between children learning a foreign language and adults learning a foreign language. At the same time, before the age of 6, children are highly sensitive to sounds, and the right brain has strong control over the vocal organs, and the adjustment of motor nerves such as vocal cords and tongue and lips is also very plastic. At this time, it is easier to master pronunciation skills by practicing speaking and speaking. With the growth of age, this ability will gradually decline, which will bring difficulties to learning foreign languages.
Children also have many advantages over adults in learning English. For example, they don't worry about exams, and they can "play" in a relaxed and happy environment without pressure. Even if they make mistakes, they will not be laughed at by others. For another example, after a long time, children will have more opportunities to practice oral English if they are not eager to increase their vocabulary during teaching. In addition, children are natural linguists. If they are motivated to learn English, their potential will soon be revealed.
Different characteristics of different stages: language education for children aged 2-6
Language is the most important tool for communication and thinking in human society. Children's acquisition of language means that they begin to learn to express their feelings, likes and dislikes, to know and explore the world around them, and to communicate with others. Since language learning is so important to children's growth, for many parents, how to help and promote children's language learning has become the top priority of children's intellectual development. Research shows that 2-6 years old is a critical period for children's language development. Next, we will discuss with you the language development of babies aged 2-6.
2-3 years old:
After experiencing the multi-sentence stage of expressing his thoughts and intentions in simple words, the baby began to enter the simple sentence stage. This means that the baby can say some simple phrases and start to make them into some complex sentences he wants to express. This period is the baby's oral explosive period, and the baby will begin to express it with short sentences composed of verbs and even adjectives.
Expert advice:
1, has a kind attitude and encourages the baby to communicate with others.
2. Put an end to children's language and standardize language use.
3. Gamification language learning.
Game 1: Strengthen oral muscle strength.
Blowing: Blowing bubbles is the most interesting blowing training. But be careful not to prepare a straw-type bubble blowing appliance for your baby to avoid inhalation.
Game 2: Expand experience and enrich short sentences.
Play house: Role-playing is a baby's favorite game form. Parents can discuss with their children, discuss roles and contents, and prepare toys.
Game 3: Encourage communication and increase confidence.
Correspondent: Let the children send messages to adults according to your instructions, for example, Dad, we are going to eat.
4. Enlighten children in reading education. Reading can help children acquire a more standardized language and stimulate their interest in language learning. The development of eyesight and hand-eye coordination ability of children aged 2-3 also supports them, and children begin to read. We can provide such books for babies at this stage:
Picture books or cards with clear pictures, bright colors and large and simple shapes.
The content is close to daily life, and the theme is best to arouse parent-child dialogue.
A story book with simple language and strong repetition.
Books made of durable materials.
3-4 years:
Babies aged 3-4 can basically say complete sentences, and sentences have changed from single-word sentences to two-word sentences and multi-word sentences. Their pronunciation began to stabilize gradually, instead of having more vague voices before the age of 3. With the development of children's self-awareness and the improvement of their cognitive level, babies at this stage have been able to say some information related to themselves.
Expert advice:
1, talk to children more. Mom and dad try to arrange a fixed time to talk to their children every day, and they can talk to their children about the kindergarten, today's mood and so on.
2, often read some short, rhyming children's songs to children. Children's songs can make babies experience harmonious rhythm and beautiful rhythm, and feel the charm of standardized written language.
3. Provide children with a diverse language environment. Children are characterized by accepting various stimuli and promoting the development of their language intelligence in different channels and ways.
4. Reading education. Choose some reading materials that can help children understand the real environment. When reading a book, you can not only tell stories to your baby in the order of pictures, but also train your child's reasoning ability with a single picture. many
4-5 years old:
Babies aged 4-5 have basically mastered all the pronunciations of their mother tongue. Not only that, they began to distinguish and even distinguish different languages.
Expert advice:
1, increase your life experience and take your children out for a walk. 4-year-old babies can understand the instructions of adults, abide by certain rules, and follow their parents for more outdoor activities, such as shopping and visiting parks.
2. Pay attention to reading and guide children to pay attention to words. 4 years old is a period of rapid development of baby vocabulary.
3, you can consider letting your baby learn a foreign language. The 4-year-old baby has basically mastered the pronunciation of his mother tongue, and his ability to distinguish and understand has also made a great leap.
5-6 years:
Babies aged 5-6 have been able to use simple sentences skillfully. The proportion of them using complex sentences is also increasing, and the sentences tend to be complete.
Expert advice:
1, games train children's listening and language organization skills. Babies aged 5-6 have certain association and vocabulary expansion ability, and we can organize such games for them.
Story string: prepare some small notes. Think of some words about time, people, places and events with your children and write them on paper, and classify them. Mom, dad and the baby each take a few of these four points and make up a few sentences, preferably strung into stories.
Copy the same: the whole family participates, the first person thinks of a complete sentence and quietly passes it on to the second person, the second person passes it on to the third person, and so on. Finally, let's see what the handed down words have become. Parents can adjust the difficulty of sentences according to their children's abilities.
2. Key points of reading education.
Expand the categories of books. With the expansion of life experience, this period can give children a variety of choices. Historical stories, fairy tales and folk stories are very suitable for children in this period. In addition to literary books, knowledgeable picture books, such as natural science and biological science, are also in line with children's reading interests and can expand their experiences.
Choose a story book with complicated plots, be imaginative and causal, and promote children's thinking.
Books should pay equal attention to graphics and text, and the text can be relatively complicated. According to past experience, let children understand complex long sentences better by looking at pictures.
Considering that children are about to enter primary school, parents can cultivate their children's interest and habits in writing. Don't pay special attention to the neatness and correctness of words, the key is the writing method, sitting posture, concentration and so on.