This is a weekly diary about "English enlightenment"
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I said I would write English enlightenment before, but now I'm here.
Now English enlightenment stickers are everywhere, and Niu Wa, the chicken mother, is everywhere. Cat Xiaole, who has no ability, wants to say something different.
The specific methods, steps and materials of enlightenment will be written later. Let me make my attitude clear first.
I found that parents are generally very concerned about their children's English now, and English has become a necessary skill for children after they can walk and speak.
No, children who haven't learned to speak should be enlightened in English and listen to English children's songs and so on.
Some parents are educated by the theory of "language sensitive period", and infants have a particularly strong ability to accept language! It is the prime time for children to learn a foreign language before the age of 6!
As long as you create a language environment in this period, you can plant a seed in your child's heart, but you will never have this opportunity when you grow up. Don't miss it!
There are also some parents who think that learning English is foreign. Other children watch Xiong Er, the bear who destroys all day, and my children watch Peggy the pig in English! Others are still reciting Tang poems, which is too elementary. My family reads original English picture books and sings English nursery rhymes!
Others go to public kindergartens that teach nothing, but we have foreign teachers! The circle of friends has a lot of face.
In addition, the third kind of parents are more pragmatic. They think that if children start learning English as early as possible, they can master English as soon as possible.
As long as you listen to English nursery rhymes, watch English cartoons and read English picture books every day, you can learn English naturally and painlessly, and you can speak, read and communicate, unlike our generation, which has been tested for more than ten years and ended up with dumb English.
I don't comment on the first two types of parents, but I only have three words for the third type of parents: good attempt.
To start English enlightenment, parents should first be prepared-
Play English children's songs and watch cartoons regularly every day in the early stage; Insist on reading English picture books in the medium term and choose to change the book list in time; Guide children to talk in the middle and late stages, often saying;
Later, guide children to learn to write, while continuing to listen, speak and read, and the corresponding materials should be updated in time.
This process is very tiring for parents, who have to sacrifice their time to accompany their children.
The other is long-term persistence. It's a long learning process for such a young child, and you won't see the results at once. Do you have the patience to persevere?
It is precisely because parents are hard to persist and don't know how to operate, so there are so many corresponding English enlightenment products and institutions, indeed too many.
Marketing is becoming more and more exaggerated. For example, the Oxford tree reading course of Himalayan app itself can be seen everywhere. Almost all the parent-child numbers have been pushed. At first glance, it is the rhythm of burning money marketing.
However, you should know that the original content of the Oxford Tree is not suitable for children whose mother tongue is not English. I brought this course I tried in the Himalayas, and the content was unscientific.
In this regard, some parent-child companies even advertised the Oxford Tree as "Hermes in English Enlightenment" in order to let parents buy their courses.
I really don't know who to mourn for, Hermes, who used xx as a marketing tool for children's educational products.
There is also an excessive admiration for graded reading materials.
I wonder where the trend of graded reading comes from. Oxford Tree, RAZ, Red Rocket, Hyman ... There are too many descriptions of Niu Wa in the posts, all of whom have brushed hundreds of graded reading materials balabala at a few years old.
Let the onlookers see, wow, I read hundreds of English books at an early age. It's amazing. I want my baby to be so amazing.
A graded book has only a few pages, and parents can read a book full of emotions in just two minutes.
Moreover, the word "brush" is really subtle. A child has brushed hundreds of grading books. Did he watch it by himself or by his parents, or did he pass it after reading it once?
We finished reading 30 RAZ books when we were young. I can also say that we have read 30 graded books in one day today. Doesn't that sound a little awesome?
And what are graded reading materials for? They are for children in English-speaking countries.
For example, when we learn to recognize Chinese characters, we point to big black and white cards and recognize them one by one: this is a table. Before he could read, he knew the meaning of every word in the sentence "This is a table".
In this way, children who can speak and listen in English-speaking countries can gradually learn to read and then transition to reading by themselves.
Therefore, the language learning order of listening, speaking, reading and writing is fixed, and the original intention of grading reading materials is to prepare for the step of "reading".
It is very important to read more books, and graded reading books can barely be used to enlighten our children whose mother tongue is not English.
But it can't be the whole of children's English learning. It's not that amazing.
Learn natural spelling too early.
I don't know how things are in other cities, but now Shanghai is becoming more and more exaggerated. I am so young, I have just been sent to a kindergarten class to learn natural spelling, earlier than children in English-speaking countries.
In the past, the common English institutions were those super-hi, gentle foreign teachers who led a group of children to sing and dance while playing games.
The children are very happy in class. A semester has passed and only three words have been learned.
Smart parents named this kind of organization "jumping organization" and gradually realized that jumping organization can't learn the real thing.
Where can I learn English when my child stops jumping? Organizations that focus on natural spelling come to parents with sly smiles.
What is natural spelling? This is a skill. If you learn it, you can read. If you see a word, you can spell it according to the rules of natural spelling, so you can transition to writing.
If the child is too young, I heard that it is still stumbling, and there is no consciousness of reading and writing at all.
Let him learn natural spelling, he probably doesn't know what he is learning, wasting time and money.
So must we learn to spell naturally? Yes, but this is not the first step in learning English.
When children have the basic knowledge of English listening and speaking, or have the ability of active learning over 5 years old, they will naturally learn spelling quickly.
If a child's English enlightenment has just begun and someone tells you, you can learn natural spelling first! Remember to roll your eyes and walk away coldly.
Is it necessary to start English enlightenment when children are very young? Yes, because children will not resist at this time, which is the biggest advantage.
Just listen to other so-called golden age of language, don't worry.
For example, before the age of 3, whatever you show him and what he listens to, he will input it imperceptibly, and he will slowly sing along after listening to Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star every day.
It is natural for children to read and write English in the future, at least they are no strangers to English.
But what about the big boy? You have to give him a reason to learn English.
Why can't I watch Chinese cartoons, but I want to watch Piggy Peggy who can't understand anything?
Why can't I listen to Chinese stories and listen to English picture books that I can't understand anything?
Why does my mother insist on trying to speak a few words of English to me when she can't speak Chinese well?
Many parents let their children learn English, as if by default, their children will naturally be interested in English, but they are not.
They have a natural rejection of unfamiliar things, so you have to bother to help them find a reason and opportunity to fall in love with English.
But older children also have the advantage of learning English late, that is, they have strong ability to accept and learn.
You spend a week repeatedly teaching three-year-olds to read letters. They may sometimes know letters and sometimes they don't. They simply don't have the ability to learn systematically and actively.
But you let five or six-year-olds learn letters? It took him two times to remember. He has the ability of active learning and cognition, and learning is meaningful.
Finally, do you want to understand why you should enlighten your children in English? Is it following the trend or because of anxiety?
Do you have any expectations and goals for children's English learning at this stage? For example, what level do you expect his English to reach in the past six months?
To tell you the truth, I haven't fully thought about these problems. I also stepped on many pits to gain the above knowledge and experience.
I wrote it today just to think about it together. We will see the specific enlightenment methods and steps in the next article.
Thank you for your attention to "Happy Cat"
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