Cartoons are certainly useful for English learning. Take my niece for example. She started her English enlightenment at the age of three and watched many Disney English movies since she was a child. She has watched these movies so many times, some lines have been memorized, and sometimes she can blurt them out in corresponding situations.
She is now studying in the best junior high school here, and her English level is one of the best in Niu Wa. I also saw many cartoons used by Niu Wa as English enlightenment materials on the Internet, and his English ability has also developed very well. Moreover, the British Council for Cultural Education (the one who took the IELTS test) also recommended cartoons as the material for English classroom teaching.
2. Why use Piggy Peggy?
Speaking of Piggy Peggy, most children like to watch this cartoon, of course, they basically watch the Chinese dubbing version.
Interest is the best teacher for children to learn English. If children's interests can be taken as an opportunity to watch the original English, it is best to immerse them in fun and sharpen their ears from an early age. Peggy Pi Jie: I think he is best for children to learn English for several reasons:
First of all, the topic is very life-oriented.
The content of each episode is the daily life content that children come into contact with, such as kindergarten, playing house, pets, going to the dentist, going out to play and so on.
Peggy Piggy has now aired 2 18 episodes, and each story has a life scene. Children can learn authentic English expressions in the 2 18 life scene. Only when there is input can there be output. In the future, when children encounter the same scene, they can naturally speak authentic English. However, a child can use 200 English scenes, and a child can only use 20 English scenes. The language ability is high or low.
The second is simple language, clear words and high repetition.
Piggy Peggy is aimed at preschool children aged 2-5 in foreign countries, so the language used is very simple, suitable for children who have just started to enlighten English, and the similar positioning is the same as that of adults who used to learn English with friends. And the language is highly repetitive. Take the first episode of the first season "Pig jumps into the mud pit" as an example, the word jump appears constantly, and the frequency of this episode is not less than 10 times.
Thirdly, each episode lasts about 5 minutes, which is also very suitable for English learning.
If the time is too long and the amount of information is too large, it will affect the child's memory. Short and pithy stories are just suitable for children's intensive learning. Even if children spend only half an hour every day learning Peggy Piggy by watching or listening to audio repeatedly, the number of repetitions is as many as six times. If children like this episode, even if they only listen to it for a week, they can listen to the same material six times a day and more than 40 times a week. Language learning is not about quantity, but about repetition. The more repetitions, the deeper the memory of the language. Therefore, the length of 5 minutes can just meet the principle of a small number of times.
3. How to use Piggy Peggy?
For children, the purpose of listening to a piece of material repeatedly is to let them form a better ability to distinguish English pronunciation (correct pronunciation, weak reading, continuous reading, etc.). ), understand the meaning of sentences, master authentic English usage and form English thinking. Because children are young and have strong language plasticity, it is easier to form the same language ability as foreigners through this repeated intensive listening.
Having said that, how can children learn English through Piggy Peggy? I summarized five basic steps:
1. Read it several times to get familiar with the plot and language.
In the process of watching cartoons repeatedly, children will be familiar with the plot first and then the language.
2. Understand the language through explanation.
Why is there an explanation? Because only understandable and conscious language input is effective input.
Just like we watch so many original Korean dramas, it's different without subtitles, just like watching a gobbledygook? But if it is an American drama, you can learn some words and usages instead. This is entirely because we have studied English and have the foundation to expand our knowledge through TV dramas.
I will control every public lecture within 10 minutes, without giving children too much pressure and information, so that children have enough time to understand and digest.
3. Read repeatedly on the basis of understanding.
After listening to the explanation, children have a general understanding of the language content, and can spend a lot of time watching cartoons or listening to the original sound (there are resources to download after each episode). Such a large number of conscious language repetition can enable children to input English efficiently.
4. Read synchronously with picture books
When I explain the release of each episode, I will release the self-made picture book of this episode simultaneously.
Parents can read to their children and put their fingers on words at the same time. Because children at this time have listened to the animated soundtrack many times, they are very sensitive to the pronunciation of words and sentences, which can not only help children to be more familiar with the usage of English, but also combine this sound with words, greatly increasing the efficiency of children's literacy.