As a universal communication medium, English has been paid more and more attention in China. Mastering a foreign language has become a basic requirement for citizens in the 2 1 century, and English education in China is booming and developing day by day. Based on the analysis of the current situation of children's English education, this paper puts forward the following strategies to provide possible thinking for promoting the development of children's language education.
First, follow the rules of children's English learning and promote the healthy development of children's body and mind.
Parents and teachers should make it clear that children's English learning should pay attention to cultivating interest, create an effective language learning environment for children, cultivate their practical English application ability, and help children develop effective learning strategies and good study habits. In the choice of learning materials, we should adapt to the characteristics of children's own development and choose teaching materials that are entertaining and innovative in content. In addition, the forms of teaching materials should be diversified, and books, pictures, TV videos and recordings can all be used for English teaching. Scientific teaching methods are the key to ensure the quality of children's English education. Teachers should make full use of children's curiosity, be good at imitation and love praise, and create and summarize a series of efficient and interesting teaching methods. Children's English teaching is an interactive activity between teachers and students, and students are the main body and participants in the learning process. The following teaching methods can be used for reference:
(1) game. Children's English is conducted in an entertaining atmosphere, and teachers can design various games according to what they have learned. For example, in learning words, there are: bingo? ; Fill in the missing letters such as ap_le(p) (Apple); Disrupt the alphabetical order and rearrange it into correct words, such as nomyke――monkey；; The word solitaire means that the last letter of the previous word is the first letter of the next word, such as leg-go-old. ...
(2) Look at the picture and speak. It can not only consolidate the knowledge learned, but also cultivate children's observation, judgment and logical thinking ability. The main forms are: dialogue with pictures, making up stories, comparing similarities and differences, and retelling the content with pictures.
(3) body expression. Children are naturally active and good at imitation. They should make extensive use of audio-visual and tactile channels to strengthen English learning. For example, when teaching to drink water, let students do the corresponding drinking action; When teaching ducks, let children learn the way and sound of ducks. (4) Scene exchange performance method. In actual English learning, we should constantly set up virtual scenes so that students can learn English in actual communication. Let children act out the dialogues and stories in the book in certain scenes, which can not only increase their interest in learning, but also apply what they have learned.
(5) Song Education Law. Children's songs are childlike and can cultivate children's good sense of language and pronunciation habits. Songs can help children acquire English naturally in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere.
(6) Lenovo induction. Consciously associate and summarize the learned knowledge with the previous related knowledge. For example, when you learn the word watermelon, you can make students associate, summarize and review all the other fruit words you have learned before.
Second, strengthen unified management and train teachers.
Education authorities at all levels should further strengthen the unified management, planning and supervision of children's English education, and introduce relevant policies to provide practical basis for the implementation of children's English education; Standardize the children's English training market, and assess and certify all school-running institutions and teachers; In addition, we should strengthen teacher training, provide opportunities for learning and exchange, and improve teachers' basic skills by relying on the theories and teacher resources of English departments in neighboring universities.
Having a team of high-quality teachers is the guarantee for children to learn English well and improve teaching quality. It is necessary to strengthen the training of English teachers, so that English teachers can not only pass the language barrier, but also have high theoretical literacy and understand the laws and characteristics of children's language learning. In fact, a qualified children's English teacher should not only have solid basic knowledge of English major and English application ability, but also have theoretical knowledge of English pedagogy, preschool pedagogy and children's psychology. We should love children's English education, have love and patience, and skillfully use children's psychology and teaching methods. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen teacher training, let more teachers with English majors or above join children's English education, strengthen the assessment of in-service English teachers, adjust the structure of teachers, and promote the improvement of English education. At the same time, it is stipulated that children's English teaching must be carried out by professionally trained certified personnel, and foreign teachers must have relevant teaching experience. Only in this way can we standardize the market of children's English teachers and let children enjoy scientific and formal education services.
We can improve the quality of English teachers through the following ways and methods: First, strengthen the on-the-job training of teachers, conduct professional training for English teachers in batches, organize teachers to study abroad, observe high-quality classes, participate in various foreign language teacher training classes, broaden their horizons, inspire their ideas and encourage teachers to innovate. The second is to organize teachers to study educational theory, listen to expert lectures, and guide teachers' teaching practice with advanced educational theory; Learn and learn from the research results and experience of foreign language teaching at home and abroad, and conduct research in combination with your own teaching practice. Third, organize teachers to learn children's psychology and understand children's psychological characteristics, so as to better grasp children's preferences and promote the establishment of harmonious teacher-student relationship.
Third, improve the teaching conditions and teaching environment.
Relevant government departments should pay enough attention to English, increase capital investment, introduce teaching equipment and introduce modern educational technology into English classrooms; Improve the teaching environment and attract talents; Organize experts to conduct theoretical research on children's English and formulate an English syllabus for primary schools suitable for local conditions; Strengthen management, strive to change the current situation of teaching and speed up the development of English education.
At present, in some training institutions, the number of students in a class often exceeds 40 to 50, especially in primary schools, and each class will exceed 80 to 90. However, it is appropriate for children to have about 20 students in each class to learn English. Too many students are not conducive to rich teaching activities, and the output of students' individual language is also seriously insufficient, which is not convenient for managing and understanding students. In addition, we should increase investment in multimedia and other modern educational equipment and buy various teaching tools, such as VCD, pictures and teaching toys. In order to increase the vitality and situational sense of teaching.
Fourth, update teaching concepts and improve teaching methods.
1. Stimulate and cultivate students' interest in learning English
Interest is a teacher who learns English well. Practice has proved that children who like this teacher will also like the courses he teaches, so we should first make students interested in the teacher and impress them with the teacher's personal charm. The teacher's voice, appearance, speech and manners in class will have a far-reaching impact on students. Sometimes, a teacher's words can even change a child's life. Praise good students, encourage poor students and care? Terrible? Students should communicate with students as much as possible and establish a good and harmonious relationship between teachers and students, which is very important to stimulate and cultivate students' interest in learning. Secondly, attract students with innovative and flexible teaching methods. Teaching methods and teaching media will greatly affect the learning effect, so it is necessary to adopt the best teaching methods and the latest teaching media learning strategies. Some teachers have summed up many teaching methods in their long-term educational practice, such as intuitive teaching method, game teaching method, situational teaching method, multi-angle perception method, communicative method and so on. No matter what kind of teaching method is adopted, we should study it carefully, so as to prepare lessons with books, students and methods, teach students in accordance with their aptitude and not become a mere formality. Moreover, arm students with rich knowledge. If a teacher has excellent skills, can speak fluent and pure English, know a lot of words from all walks of life and understand the cultural differences between China and the West, students will admire him. Therefore, it is our aim to teach students to be willing to learn, to learn to learn, and to learn what to learn.
2. Flexible teaching methods.
People find that intuitive teaching method is most suitable for language beginners. Therefore, in daily teaching activities, various pictures, objects and realistic toys should be teachers' main teaching tools. Situational teaching method, as a supplement to intuitive teaching method, is suitable for teaching relatively abstract words and phrases that cannot be expressed in real objects. As we know, language is produced in productive labor practice. If language leaves the situation and practice, it will become passive water and a tree without roots. Therefore, when teaching children abstract language knowledge, teachers must improve their understanding ability through situational infection and image description. As you can imagine, if a teacher tells the story of the ugly duckling to primary school students with a plain expression and plain language, they will soon lose interest. On the contrary, if teachers tell stories with rich facial expressions, beautiful body language and cadence, they will be very interested and full of desire to learn.
In the choice of teaching content, children's age characteristics should be taken into account. Fun and life? In principle, choose stories, dialogues and exercises that are close to children's lives; There are rhyming children's songs and nursery rhymes; And all kinds of easy-to-learn and easy-to-operate game activities. Because these contents are especially suitable for children's English learning, they like listening to stories, learning to sing rhythmically and have a strong desire to express themselves, so they dare to participate in various conversation performances. Here? Middle school play, school play? In the new teaching method, the children slowly completed the teaching content. Of course, the arrangement of these teaching contents must be carried out step by step from near to far, from simple to complex.
3. Combination of input and output
Language is learned, not taught, which may be the case for people who learn their mother tongue. And English is a language other than mother tongue. Without the acquired language environment, teachers don't teach students how to do it. The author believes that, on the one hand, students should increase under the guidance of teachers? Listen. The input of. Listening can be divided into listening carefully and listening casually. Teachers can ask students to listen carefully to the teacher's lecture, listen to tapes, listen to classmates' lectures, listen to the pronunciation and intonation clearly, understand the meaning of words and sentences, or listen to English songs, English stories or English broadcasts at will. Only by expanding language contact and inputting a lot of understandable language information can we output effectively. On the other hand, strengthen effective output. Listening, speaking, reading and writing are the basic skills for primary school students to learn English. Imitate the teacher, imitate the recording, speak with pictures, sing English songs, solve riddles on the lanterns, and combine learning with painting, all of which can strengthen the effective output. Take listening and speaking as the link, command pronunciation, accumulate vocabulary, enrich sentence patterns, lay a good foundation, learn skills in stages, grasp ability, and combine input and output organically, so that children can really learn English.
Fifth, accelerate the research and exploration of children's English education.
Linguists have studied the laws of children's language learning and found that one stage of children's language development is devoted to learning their mother tongue. After this stage, the brain gradually improves and its plasticity decreases. Usually, after a child reaches puberty, the cognitive system of the brain, including language, will not develop as fast as before. They think that children are in the critical period of learning a second language when they are four or five years old. At this time, children's ability to learn a language is very strong. As long as they can hear and touch it regularly and systematically, they can learn it at the same time. Children have this potential. At this time, the brain is just suitable for learning languages, and learning several languages at the same time will not do any harm to children. In order to guide children to master some basic English skills in daily life and carry out English teaching activities in English, it is undoubtedly required that children's English teachers have a solid English foundation and excellent oral English application ability.
At present, children's English education has become a new topic in the field of children's education, and a series of authoritative teaching materials involving children's psychology, basic teaching skills and children's English teaching methods are still lacking. Relevant teachers and researchers should speed up the scientific research and exploration of related projects, provide reference and guidance for children's English teaching, make unified plans for students' English learning from an early age, cultivate their interest and desire in learning English, and thus lay a good foundation for advanced English learning.
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