I read an article saying that the composition is not made by backrest, but by practice. It is recommended not to recite, but to practice English more naturally. I want to talk about my point of view.
My opinion is: reciting the first 30 lessons of new concept book 3 and book 4, gre is easy, tofel is nothing.
1, the author said: the composition comes from practice instead of backrest.
As we all know, words and sentences are essential elements of composition. If you don't even have basic vocabulary and sentence patterns, what will you do to "practice"? Just like you want to build a house but don't want to buy bricks, what will you build? Ask again: How did you get the words and sentences? Maybe you will say: I got them not by reciting, but by practicing (that is, using this sentence over and over again in the wild field, practice makes perfect in the end).
Say reciting first. It is the action of searching the corresponding sentence from the brain (see Chinese translated into English), then checking and repeating it until it blurts out.
Analyze your behavior at the scene,
It can be divided into two steps:
1, search the corresponding sentence in the brain;
2. Say it on similar occasions (the more occasions, the more repetitions);
After all, what you call "practice" is reciting, just changing the interval and place of repeating this sentence. "Back" is the result of a qualitative leap in thinking and repeating sentences. If someone can memorize an article, it means that he can blurt it out easily, rather than the painful mindless chanting behavior you imagine.
New concept English is very classic. It is better than intensive reading in college, this and that "any English" books.
Is the essence of concentration, each article is short and interesting, with moderate vocabulary and difficult steps.
After reciting 90 lessons, you don't have to read any more, saving time and effort. 2. How to recite?
"Use your head"+"Persistence" is enough.
3. When can I recite it and blurt it out?
It is directly proportional to the efficiency of "thinking" and the time of persistence.
Foreign 3-year-olds can speak fluently,
You don't need to change diapers. You sleep 16 hours a day, get jaundice, get prickly heat, and eat more milk than them. Your IQ is higher than theirs;
So two years is more than enough (except those who study only 1 hour every day)
The reason why we have to "recite" and "new concepts",
Because:
1, Chinese means "memorizing". If you don't think so, it's because you misunderstood the word "memorizing" (your learning method is correct, in fact, that's memorizing);
2. The New Concept is by far the most classic English textbook;
After memorizing these, you don't have to sleep in a rotten bed in New Oriental. You will suddenly lose your retina, write "I am dead, don't take away a cloud" on the signature document, and study machine classics as devoutly as I ching. Just make a cup of tea a week before the exam, listen to lyric music, and get familiar with the topic after the last exam. It's hard not to get high marks. (except for mental disorder caused by lovelorn)
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Why do experts advocate reciting new concept English?
As the saying goes, "Read 300 Tang poems by heart, even if you can't write, you will recite them." As a communicative language learning subject, if English can achieve the ideal state of "singing without writing poems", then why worry about not learning English well? Now that you can sing, the dumb English that has puzzled educators in China for many years will be solved. Recording the content of "memorizing" virtually solves the headache of some learners in writing teaching; It's really "kill three birds with one stone".
Nowadays, many English learners are improving their English level by reciting the texts of New Concept English: many teachers in key middle schools require their students to memorize or memorize the second or third volumes of New Concept English skillfully. Some candidates who are preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination and TOEFL also improve their oral and writing skills by reciting new concept English. Practice has proved that short, concise, lively and interesting texts in new concept English textbooks are most suitable for memorization.
Reciting can not only help learners deepen their understanding of the text, improve their reading ability and exercise their memory, but also help students learn the methods of making sentences and layout in the text, and cultivate and improve their writing ability. There is a proverb that says, "You can get as much knowledge as you can recite." Therefore, recitation is an important aspect of improving English learning ability. For most English learners, especially college students and friends who have been preparing for GRE and TOEFL, no matter whether their English learning is good or bad, they have stored a lot of typical English sentences in their minds through a lot of English reading and contact for more than ten years, but this part of their memory has become inert because of too little exercise in daily life. Just like GRE words, many learners can only see the meaning of the words in the end and can't apply them to life. Why? Because it is really difficult for these learners to encounter GRE words, except GRE blue books and red books. Thinking needs constant activation, so that this part of memory can often move in the cerebral cortex. Reciting new concepts is actually stimulating this part of lazy thinking every day. Over time, when we write another composition, the cerebral cortex is active in English sentences that you have accumulated for more than ten years and have never used. So reciting new concept English is a good catalyst, which is worth trying in English learning.
Remember what should be remembered and forget what should be forgotten. Change what can be changed and accept what cannot be changed.
How to effectively recite new concept English? [FLTRP]
Everyone will adopt different learning methods according to their own learning characteristics. Here are some different ways to recite. Method (1)
(1) Clear the purpose and concentrate.
Reciting a text or a sentence that must be mastered, the most taboo is to look around, be careless and be distracted. If it is a very simple text, it must be because of carelessness if you keep making mistakes after reciting it for a few days. As for the phenomenon of "remembering first and then forgetting", it is normal. At this time, don't give in to this temporary difficulty and shrink back.
(2) Determine the task and find the trick.
It is not feasible to recite a short passage only a few times. You must read it thoroughly. It can be shorter and easier at first, and then make some adjustments. In addition, when reciting, we should pay attention to certain skills, be familiar with the content of the text, and understand the main idea of the text, so that we won't remember wrong or confused, and we can remember more and more.
(3) stick to the back and check in time.
The more time you spend reviewing and reciting, the better your memory will be. For example, recite the text or knowledge in the morning, recite it once before going to bed at night and getting up the next day, then review it properly every Saturday or Sunday, and recite it again one month later. Only in this way can we ensure that we will not forget for a long time.
(4) Strengthen dictation training.
As the saying goes, "It's better to read it a thousand times than to copy it by hand." Dictation can effectively consolidate the texts and knowledge that have been memorized, which is of great benefit to deepening memory. Because writing itself is a kind of figure and symbol, regular dictation can help us promote the development of the right brain. If we can practice dictation step by step and for a long time, it will certainly contribute to the quality and effect of recitation.
Method (2)
(1) Combination of repeated reading and copying
Simple repeated reading is ineffective. Learners should actively try to reproduce the article before memorizing it completely, and then read it when they can't remember it. It is easy to remember and lasts for a long time. Especially unfamiliar sentences, pay attention to repeat them as many times as possible. Because trying to reproduce is a more active intellectual activity than reading, and it is also a process of self-examination, which can make people pay more attention, grasp the key points and difficulties of memory content, and correct mistakes in memory in time.
(2) Give it a try
In the process of reciting, if there is a "jam", it is necessary to recall. Memory is a form of intentional and indirect reproduction, which requires great willpower, overcoming certain difficulties, looking for clues in many ways and thinking actively and flexibly. Therefore, you can't just get stuck and stop carrying it.
(3) study hard
Through understanding and digestion, the article has been incorporated into its own knowledge system, and sentences have become catchy through familiar reading and reciting. If you read them repeatedly, you can recite them fluently. In addition to individual and collective recitation, there is also antithesis, that is, two people recite face to face at the same time, because of the interference of the other party, which can exercise the profoundness and correctness of students' memory; Mention the back, that is, where to type, where to recite, where to mention and where to recite, which can exercise the accuracy of students' memory.
(4) dictation
This is also a form of reciting the internal language, which can be used by both brain and hand to deepen the memory of the article. An article is "eaten" paragraph by paragraph. Finally, follow the principle of "whole → part → whole" and recite the whole article in series according to the method of reciting paragraphs.
In addition, in order to keep the content of recitation in mind for a long time, so as to extract the application in practice in time, learners should also pay attention to two points: First, follow the forgetting law and arrange review reasonably. There should be daily review and weekly review. Constantly strengthen the memory trace to avoid its weakening or fading. Second, according to the influence of memory level on the forgetting process, pay attention to arranging excessive learning. Experiments show that the effect of excessive learning is better than moderate learning. The so-called moderate learning refers to the learning that stops just after reciting the materials. Excessive learning refers to continuing to learn after reciting the materials.
The new concept article is concise in language, prominent in knowledge points, vivid and interesting, and suitable for reciting and retelling. Many people get great help from reciting new concepts and greatly improve their English. (This includes myself) But there are several ways to choose from when reciting properly:
Step 1: Listen attentively to the recording of the text. The sign of this step is that when listening to the recording, you can almost remember the next sentence after hearing the previous sentence, and you can follow the recording fluently without reading the textbook. The purpose of doing this is to correct pronunciation and reduce the difficulty of reciting.
Step 2: There are two ways:
1, translate the text by yourself and then speak English according to the translation.
2. Write down the key words in the text as a reminder to recite the text.
Step 3: You can practice retelling on the basis of the first two steps and say the main contents of the text in your own language. For beginners, you can not do this step for the time being. Beginners should be meticulous and recite the original text word for word. )
Finally, this story only reveals some aspects of this Peking University student's English learning, while others are unknown to us. For example, what was his English foundation before learning new concepts? How did he learn it except by imitating the tape? Does he have a good teacher? Have you read those books widely? I'm sure he has done a lot of writing exercises, and maybe some experts have revised them for him. We know nothing about these situations. Perhaps it is because he said that reciting the New Concept is very helpful for him to learn English, and the texts of the two books are not simple and have a sensational effect, so people think that his success is only due to "reciting" the New Concept.
Endorsement is certainly useful, but it is not just memorizing. Mastering the text well is the key. The ancients said they were familiar with the Tang Dynasty.
There are 300 poems, and the key is familiarity. Recitation means voiceless recitation, recitation of verve and appreciation of the artistic conception of poetry. Generally, the ancient people can recite more than 200,000 words of the four books, five classics and, of course, 300 Tang poems. I am familiar with 300 Tang poems, and I am sure I can recite them all. Why say "study hard" instead of "recite" 300 Tang poems? Quality is not form. Mr. Qian Mu once talked about how to learn poetry. He said that it would take a year to copy Du Fu 100, Li Bai 100 and Wang Wei and Tao Yuanming dozens. After learning this, it is enough to copy these poems again in a few years, add new ones and replace the old ones. After studying poetry for several years, he studied about 300 poems. Of course, Mr. Qian didn't just say reciting. I want to learn "New Concept" by reading carefully, as Mr. Qian said. Intensive reading textbooks are not good enough. The ancients said, "The literary works are bad, but the scholar is half.". If you are familiar with the Selected Works, you can be regarded as half a scholar, and the Selected Works has only more than 300,000 words.
Mr. Alexander has passed away. After listening to his lectures in his early years, the old gentleman generally advocated memorizing the text. I think it is important to be good at it, not the form of "memorizing meetings". If we have mastered the text and have a good sense of language, it should be enough for us to know the next sentence. It's better not to say anything from beginning to end.
Adult's mechanical memory is far inferior to that of children. I don't think it is necessary to overemphasize mechanical rote learning. Recite frequently, preferably unconsciously. Read more books and you'll remember. This is how the ancients "recited" books.