With the internationalization of the world, understanding English has become a skill that conforms to the development of the times. Moreover, one thing is certain. It is predicted that English will remain an international language in 20 years. Therefore, I would advise parents to let their children learn English. Learning English well can not only be used in work, but also make people live a better life, such as reading, such as traveling.
Early English training is conducive to the development of children's intelligence in all aspects. Learning English is very important for the development of children's language, cognition, thinking and communication skills. A large number of studies show that the cognitive development level of children who start learning foreign languages from early childhood and lower primary school is generally higher than that of children of the same age who do not learn foreign languages. In the standard academic tests of all subjects, their scores are better than or at least equal to those of children of the same age who do not learn foreign languages. Bilingual children are often better than monolingual children in fluency, flexibility, creativity and novelty. On the other hand, through foreign language learning, children can broaden their horizons and understand the people and cultures of other countries, which is undoubtedly conducive to the cultivation of cross-cultural talents and lay a preliminary foundation for higher-level foreign language learning in the future.
Children have little psychological obstacles in learning English. In the process of foreign language learning, learners' psychology and emotion are important factors affecting their acquisition. Adults will care about whether their grammar and meaning are correct, and they will feel humiliated if they say it wrong; However, children's "language self-esteem" has not yet formed, and they can't tell which is their mother tongue and which is not their mother tongue, so naturally they won't have resistance to English. From the psychological characteristics of children, they are very interested in all new things, so they are very active and natural in the process of learning a foreign language.
Children learn English with little interference from their mother tongue. With the growth of age, the mother tongue is becoming more and more fluent and perfect, and everyone's mother tongue habits are becoming more and more consolidated. When adults begin to learn a foreign language, especially a language completely different from their mother tongue, they often unconsciously take their mother tongue as the standard and accept the language they have learned. Therefore, some phenomena in foreign languages are often strange and difficult to understand. This psychological emotion disturbed by mother tongue will directly or indirectly affect the second language learning. Compared with adults, children's mother tongue language habits have not been developed or fully developed, so they are much less disturbed by their mother tongue in the process of learning a foreign language than adults.
The starting point of learning English needs careful consideration.
1. If the children are young, they can take them abroad for one year. This immersive environment is very conducive to children's language training.
2. If your children can't have an all-weather immersive English learning environment, when should the era of language learning begin? Academician Wei Yu, former Minister of Education, pointed out in an interview: "0-3 years old is a critical period for children's development, and important social and emotional abilities such as perception, language and adaptability are developed during this period, but their importance is ignored by families and society, and all kinds of negative psychological and personality problems of children are related to this.
It should also be noted that early childhood development does not mean early education, let alone teaching children the primary school curriculum in advance. However, it is wrong for some parents to simplify children's development in order to let their children learn English and math. "
Is it necessary to teach English early? If there is no context, don't let children learn English too early. The best stages of students' memory are grade five or six and junior high school. If they are exposed to English too early, the effect will be counterproductive. Academician Wei Yu has been studying the development of brain science for a long time, and has done a lot of research on children's learning, especially scientific learning. Therefore, I quite agree with her suggestion. For children, the best stage of learning and memory, that is, the best stage of English language learning, is the fifth and sixth grade of primary school.
However, it should be pointed out that children learn English from grade five or six on the basis of learning theory. However, from a practical point of view, all primary schools begin to learn English from grade one. If your children don't have a certain foundation in English outside school, it's hard to keep up at school, especially for boys.
It is necessary to teach English early, but not too early. Personally, I think some children waste their time and their parents' money. Children learn English at a very young age, such as 3 years old, and they can't understand many contents of the language. They just remember some basic words from memory, but they can't understand sentences and other contents, let alone apply them.
My daughter's classmates took her to learn English when she was very young, which cost tens of thousands every year. But now that the child is 8 years old, except for his good vocabulary, he generally understands other sentences and contexts.
Therefore, I personally suggest that children can start from the first grade of primary school, and with the start of English classes in schools, they can also learn some English outside the school, and do both.
English early education, English early education is a must, and then verbose, off-campus study is not too demanding, just let children contact more. English is a language, similar to Mandarin we speak. As long as we talk more and listen more, we will improve quickly. Parents don't worry.