Just after the Spring Festival, the new semester has just begun. Careful parents may find that there are some new trends in education reform: first, the policies of four ministries and commissions have been issued, which clearly emphasize the correction of "intensive examinations"; Secondly, some cities began to stop competing projects, and some of them were illegally dealt with.

Combined with the previous English reform plan for senior high school entrance examination, we can extract the key information:

The general direction of college entrance examination reform: increase the proportion of Chinese, especially the assessment of reading thinking and reading comprehension ability. Some people say that those who get Chinese in the future will win the world, which is only superficial. Digging deeper is actually: readers will take the college entrance examination;

English education reform: the proportion of listening and speaking increases, the proportion of reading increases, and the English scores of key universities are rejected by one vote.

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In the general direction, 20 17 revised the English curriculum standards. In the primary school stage, clear requirements are given according to the dimensions of listening, doing, rap, playing, reading and writing, watching and listening.

After graduating from primary school, I can perform 30-40 ballads or simple poems, sing 30-40 English songs, and understand English cartoons and English teaching programs to a certain extent.

In reading, you can read pictures, especially meaning group reading; Can read words according to spelling rules.

In the middle and high school stage, I began to ask for reading. In particular, the teaching objectives of reading strategies are more clear (the ability to extract the main information from the article, the main idea of the article, the author's intention, etc.). ).

Compared with the basic requirements of the new curriculum standard, the reform of reading questions in college entrance examination in recent years has improved the reading requirements qualitatively. Reading comprehension questions of college entrance examination in various provinces and cities are increasingly drawn directly from foreign current affairs magazines or original works.

Some people lament that the difficulty of English test in China is approaching IELTS TOEFL.

This is inevitable, and the future trend will become more and more obvious. The partner who is working on the China English Proficiency Scale is just one of the organizers of the IELTS test. All these changes show that English education in China has begun to change direction and the pace of international integration is getting faster and faster.

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What was this change a few years ago? Let's review:

From 2009 to 20 10, I introduced the national reading education in North America on Sina blog, and these contents were later assembled in the book Going Abroad. At that time, many people left messages on my blog, sighing, when will China pay so much attention to reading?

I have been talking about the value of reading since 20 12. One thing that impressed me the most was that a parent told me in the lecture that she had given the teacher an "English enlightenment class that should not be missed". But the teacher said that teaching English like this is not the mainstream, so we will not do it.

At that time, I was shocked by the new idea, and there were 50 QQ groups for my parents to consult. Every day, I take Bao Xiao with me and answer questions for tens of thousands of parents who have various doubts, and go to North America to study and teach. Almost every day, many parents ask me anxiously: You are right, but reading is a kind of quality education. We know that studying is good, but what if we don't have the courage to compete with the exam?

I still remember writing two blog posts at that time, "Choose a school, see today or tomorrow" and "What is education after 10". My judgment at that time was that it was an inevitable trend for China's education reform to be in line with international standards. Actually, it was earlier than I expected.

In less than ten years, this is not a standard "memory killing", but we can clearly see that:

Kindergartens and primary schools pay more and more attention to reading, and the evaluation criteria are very different from the past. Once, extracurricular reading was equal to "reading idle books", which was regarded as a scourge affecting performance by many teachers and parents. Probably when many parents were young, just like my youth, they developed a set of magical skills of "how to peek at martial arts novels" without being discovered.

Now, looking at Anne, Bao Xiao, Anniwa and all the children in the country, I was taught that reading more books is a good boy. There are all kinds of suitable graded reading materials for them to choose freely since childhood. Even English-speaking institutions, including those that used to focus on exams, are now paying full attention to reading.

To be honest, I am very pleased and a little envious.

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Why did this change happen? Let's take a look at the sources where North American education attaches importance to reading education.

First, let's look at the SAT, which is the entrance examination for American universities. 20 17, SAT attaches great importance to reading and strengthens the cultivation of rational reading and reading thinking ability. As for the score design of the SAT writing part, of the 24 points, 8 points are reading comprehension, 8 points are reading material analysis, and the other 8 points are writing skills.

TOEFL writing, which we are all familiar with, is not only based on reading, but also on listening.

If we study the basic education system in the United States, we will find that the evaluation criteria of their basic education are in line with the college entrance examination. Therefore, the baton of the American college entrance examination has actually been determining the educational direction of American children for so many years.

The so-called leadership is a scholar (reading is an essential ability for successful people), which also helps children understand the meaning of reading from an early age and gives parents the motivation to work hard for their children's success (who says that American education is not utilitarian ~). Therefore, the structure of their basic education system, from 5 years old to K level (the compulsory education system in North America starts from preschool, which is different from ours), until the third grade (G3), and it takes four years to learn to read. When a child gains the reading thinking ability, he will move towards research-oriented subject learning, that is, reading for learning.

Looking at the current direction of English education reform in China, we will find that the English learning requirements from primary school to senior high school are basically those of English-speaking children from GK-3. Of course, the difficulty is different.

This is the key problem to be solved in the children's English roadmap of China after we introduced the basic education in North America, especially the reading education system to China a few years ago.

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According to "English Enlightenment Not to Be Missed —— China Children's English Roadmap", we can summarize three points:

Grinding ears: children's songs should be ground, nursery rhymes should be ground, cartoons should be ground, and none of them can be less;

Parent-child reading: Whether accompanied by family or institutional teachers, listening and reading picture books are essential;

Natural spelling exercise: master spelling rules and learn to read independently.

What needs to be solved at home is that the route is correct and the accumulated time is guaranteed. Whether listening, watching or reading, time can guarantee quantity. College teaching focuses on improving efficiency and developing in depth. Just like children learn to speak at home, Chinese reading for children in China and English reading for children in the United States are all conducted by schools and professional teaching teams with special textbooks. According to Annihua's teaching system, our T-shaped structure is the guarantee of children's basic synchronization with North American children.

There is a statistic about reading abroad. In primary school, children who spend 13 minutes reading at home every day will increase their vocabulary by 2 17% compared with children who spend 3 minutes reading. With the continuous accumulation of reading time, if the daily reading time is increased from 20 minutes to 30 minutes, the annual reading volume will reach an astonishing 654.38+00000 words.

Accumulate words and grammar in reading, and then practice them accurately through teaching. This is our tailor-made solution for children in China. In China, it is obviously impossible to rely solely on teachers from schools and institutions. Families and society should help each other. In the past, Anne spent a lot of energy on the research and development of ideas, methods, teaching materials and courseware and teacher training. So this year, we will invest more energy in the research and development of various tools to make the family cooperation part more interesting, warmer and more efficient.

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The future has come, and education reform, sometimes we seem to see no immediate effect. But when I look back, everything is not what it used to be.

Exams are changing, and far-sighted parents can help their children choose a scientific road map. Instead of limiting the child's future to a small exam in China, it is easy for children to have more strength to solve the exam. This is Anne flowers's personal experience with thousands of babies since 2009.

Now there are always people who say that poverty limits my imagination, and I sometimes joke about it myself. But I want to say, as parents, don't let our horizons limit our imagination of our children's future. Whether it is quality education or examination, the core is to let children have a more valuable life in the future.

We are willing to accompany you all the way, and solve the exam easily with 10% energy, so that children have the opportunity to see a wider world through a scientific, relaxed and efficient English road map, and have more power to choose the life they want at will.