There are still more than two months, and another group of babies will become the "small bean bags" of senior one. Many children who started to learn natural spelling at the age of six are also learning Chinese Pinyin. Many parents worry that learning natural spelling will interfere with Chinese Pinyin at this time. Today we will mainly talk about this problem.
The role of natural spelling in English reading;
First, Chinese reading similar to Chinese Pinyin.
It can be said that natural spelling is the key to open the door to English reading. Imagine that children know isolated Chinese characters through literacy cards in the primary stage of Chinese. In fact, it is difficult to achieve the purpose of independent reading and extensive reading, but once they learn Chinese Pinyin, it seems that they have wings that can soar in the reading world. Reading a lot of pinyin books will broaden children's horizons and improve their thinking ability quickly. At the same time, a large number of words will reappear in front of children with interesting story situations, and children's vocabulary will increase rapidly and their reading ability will reach a new level.
Similarly, natural spelling is also a tool for English reading. Once children learn to spell naturally, they gain the ability to decode and spell unfamiliar words. Combined with the accumulated listening and speaking vocabulary, they can understand the meaning of reading content through pictures and context.
Therefore, for children, reading through natural spelling is much more effective than learning isolated words. The earlier a child learns to spell naturally, the easier it is for him to start English reading, and the earlier he starts English reading, the more he can appreciate the fun of English reading, thus gradually forming a virtuous circle.
Natural spelling has something to do with Chinese Pinyin;
Second, language transfer phenomenon
Language transfer refers to the interaction between two languages, generally divided into positive transfer and negative transfer. When the rules of the two languages are similar, the two languages will have a positive impact, which is called "positive transfer"; On the contrary, it is called "negative migration". Language transfer is inevitable in second language acquisition, which means that the influence of mother tongue on foreign language learning can not be ignored.
English letters and Chinese phonetic alphabet are all 26 Latin letters. Although some letters have different pronunciations, they do have many identical or similar pronunciations, such as/b//f//h//k//l//m//n//p//s//t//w//y/and so on. Therefore, we can use the positive transfer of Chinese Pinyin to help children master natural spelling faster. For example, many children don't know what the sound is when they meet cr-ow, but they can easily link when they learn pinyin spelling, and vice versa.
Third, "grinding ears" should be put in place first, and the possibility of confusion will be reduced.
Careful parents let their children listen to English songs and ballads when they are young, and consciously carry out parent-child activities to cultivate their phonological awareness. In the systematic learning of natural spelling, children can quickly learn to correspond written letters or letter combinations with phonemes, and understand the relationship between letter segmentation and combination in writing and phoneme segmentation and combination in spoken language, thus successfully achieving a breakthrough in reading enlightenment. This is the most scientific and reasonable way to learn natural spelling and achieve a breakthrough in reading enlightenment.
A lot of practice has also proved that if children have a lot of listening input in early childhood and consciously practice the training of grinding their ears to distinguish sounds, they will not only learn spelling faster and better naturally, but also be more likely to become successful readers in the future and promote the balanced development of English listening, speaking, reading and writing.
For children who start English enlightenment at the age of 3 ~ 4, natural spelling begins with known listening and speaking vocabulary. When they hear familiar words, they divide them into initials and finals, that is, initials and finals, and then combine them to spell words, such as /k/-/at/ cat, /b/-/ed/ bed.
When children aged 5-6 hear that their vocabulary is zero, they first cut the words into single phonemes and then put them together, such as /k/-/a/-/t/ cat, /b/-/e/-/d/ bed. When they learn a certain number of words, they will find that the original words such as cat, pat, mat and fat rhyme and belong to the same word family; After learning the word family, when you see bat again, you will naturally think of the pronunciation rules you have learned before, so you can blurt out the pronunciation of bat.
Fourth, don't worry too much about "mixing"
Children have strong discrimination and self-adjustment ability: for children, language learning is actually a process of constant contact and understanding, constant mistakes, and then constant correction. In this process, we will be surprised to find that children have strong discrimination and self-adjustment ability.
If in a family, the mother is from China and the father is from the United States, children who grow up in such an environment will consciously speak Chinese to their mother and English to their father. We have come into contact with many children of this age. Practice has proved that in the sensitive period of language, children have the ability of discrimination and self-adjustment beyond adults' imagination, and even if there is some confusion, they can be corrected quickly. For example, in English class, A says /a/, while in Chinese class, A should be pronounced as "ah". Children can not only distinguish the difference between the two systems quickly, but also use them properly in life.