First, we must affirm the formation of this trend. Because preschool children are the best period of language development, empirical research in psychology for many years shows that the key period of language development is before the age of 6. During this period, if children are given good language education and rich and appropriate information stimulation, they can get more full language development. However, in the English craze pursued by most parents, teachers and even children's English textbook developers, there are inevitably some drawbacks and shortcomings:
First, at present, most kindergartens or English training institutions in China do not have the conditions for children to learn English.
The infant English education market is booming like mushrooms after rain, and parents' motivation to encourage their children to learn English is also increasing. In the current English craze, there are many kindergartens that don't have hardware conditions, and in the absence of teachers and equipment, they offer English characteristic classes and bilingual education to attract students, resulting in a mixed English teaching market. Some extracurricular training institutions are also following the trend to recruit more students for pre-school English classes, special English classes, various assessment exams, rapid upgrading classes, special teaching methods and foreign teachers to teach. However, after a learning cycle, parents basically have no clear concepts and standards about how much knowledge their children have mastered and how much our children have learned. Even some parents completely follow the trend in class, spending money without saying anything, which also destroys their children's interest in learning English, causing unnecessary losses and learning obstacles. Therefore, it is the general trend to standardize the infant English market. First, relevant educational institutions should attach importance to it, formulate certain policies and regulations, standardize the infant English teaching market according to social reality, improve the infant English teaching level, and let children receive formal English education. Second, it is necessary to formulate relevant standards for children's English proficiency test. English level test is not only a patent for teachers or adults, but also an effective means to encourage children to learn and make their English standardized and orderly.
Second, all kinds of children's English textbooks can be seen everywhere, and the teachers are not perfect.
Nowadays, all kinds of children's English textbooks can be seen everywhere in the market. What children like and dislike, what parents trust and distrust, what schools flatter and don't flatter, what society favors and doesn't appreciate, what is promising or dying, and so on, are too many ... From the initial English class into children's learning life, it is gradually regarded as one of the most important subjects, and various English leaders have been commercialized. Whether the school's own hardware can meet the most basic requirements or whether the textbooks set by the school can really cultivate children's comprehensive ability of listening, speaking, reading and writing, some schools and education and training institutions use relatively good textbooks, but the curriculum arrangement is unreasonable. In addition, our teachers should use all kinds of games and tricks that children are interested in in in English class, make full use of some existing resources in the school, such as CDs, players, cards, paintings, group matches, points exchange and other incentives, correctly guide children to learn actively, and let children develop good habits of English classroom learning once and for all. Many of our teachers teach only half as much English as ordinary English, which easily confuses children with their mother tongue and hinders the development and perfection of language and mind. For example, some children remember words: apple, apple, pear, pear, which is a very unreasonable teaching method. If you say apple with an apple food or a card, will the children not understand that what you tell him is actually another expression of apple? Please believe that our children have their own judgment, not to mention giving them some fixed thinking patterns … English is just a language, and language is used for communication. Unlike other disciplines, it needs to solve some difficult problems or spend more time and energy to study deeper fields. Not everyone will become a linguist. In this case, if you can speak and speak well, then your English must be good!
Third, the contradiction between family education and children's growth
Most parents don't understand the English environment in their families, and they lack the understanding of the importance of preschool education for their children. Some parents attach too much importance to preschool education, and their desire for success is too serious, which adds unnecessary psychological pressure to our children prematurely. First of all, our parents should understand that he is still fair.