So I began to think about the reasons why students can't learn and suffer. In the practice of reading related books and learning demonstration English with my son, I gradually understand that the traditional way of memorizing words and learning grammar makes children lose interest in English and can only learn dumb English. Reading a large number of high-quality language materials is the basis of flexible learning and using language.
Children's time is precious, so we must find suitable materials to study, in order to ensure that the work is rewarding. Think about it, what a pity if children still can't speak after studying for more than ten years!
So how can we make children willing to invest? The requirements for audio materials are very high! Read and recite audio aloud in an orderly way, so that children can "cry" in less than 3 minutes and wander around! Model Union English specially invited British experts to configure a set of original and dramatic audio! My baby listens as loudly as watching cartoons every day ~
I have been thinking about how to make children's input more efficient, and then I saw a Ted talk by Professor Patricia Kuhl, a famous American brain scientist. After research, her team found that:
Only with meaningful interaction can language input be integrated into the child's little head, and then analyzed and counted by him, thus making future output possible.
In other words, "interaction" based on language input is very important for language output. The more interactive, the easier it is to understand the input language, the more successful the language input, and the more it can promote the output.
After reading the professor's research results, I realized that in order to help children truly integrate and internalize English and achieve efficient input, they must interact with him and let him express himself on the basis of familiarity with reading, imitation, understanding and absorption, so as to learn and use it flexibly. So I thought of the interactive way of "playing" English, which can also be said to be role-playing, and acted out the scenes in the book with children.
Model English is simply a weapon of role-playing! Many scenes in it are very real and fun, which opens up many ways for us to play English. The child is very active, actively practicing, actively preparing props and actively telling me what role to play, which greatly aroused his interest. For him, "learning" English has become "playing" English. In playing, he naturally learned to express himself in various situations.
For example, playing English, I am the father, he is the pickled fish, and acting a story he likes. Children prefer funny stories that his father always makes mistakes and those funny and educational stories that are soft and wronged.
When performing, you can imagine the scenery props, or you can find some objects to express the feelings of each sentence through pronunciation and intonation. When you get into the situation, your children will have a good understanding of the words and phrases in it. During the performance, you can communicate directly in English and think in English. Without translation and conversion, your children still enjoy it. In the mid-term exam next semester, I will get 97 points in English.
3.？ Don't worry, don't push, learn to be a "lazy parent"
I don't spend much time on children's English study. He has his own arrangements and plans.
For example, choose which level to start at. At first I asked him if he could start with 2. He himself said to learn from scratch, so we will start with Canon 1.
After getting the book, he arranged his own study plan. Read on CD-ROM every Monday, Wednesday and Friday night until you are familiar with it, with three class hours each time. It's been almost a year, and now I'm on 3b. When he studied 4b some time ago, he said it was a little difficult, so I asked him to look back and see where to start again.
I'm in no hurry about my children's English study. However, his English score has never been lower than 90. Now in the sixth grade, I didn't do well in the midterm exam, with a score of 90. Because he didn't study the textbook well, he just took the exam on his exemplary basis. I think he has enough time to learn the model, that is, when he inputs a certain amount, the output will come naturally.
Moreover, the whole learning process is his own decision. I think the most important thing is to cultivate children's autonomy and study habits. After autonomy is cultivated, parents can be "lazy" parents. If we help arrange everything and stay with them, can the children stay with them in the third and sixth grades?
Of course, in order to encourage my son to stick to it and make good use of the model, I will throw a "bait" and start reading the original Harry Potter when I know it! I have been waiting patiently for him to read the original Harry Potter!