Three Ways to Cultivate Children's Sense of English Language
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Listening is the most direct way to train children's sense of language. Parents can take their children to watch English movies, listen to English songs and read English picture books, and then imitate the sentences in them, and the most important thing is to imitate them. Even if it is as small as a word, it is necessary to achieve pure pronunciation and correct intonation, preferably exactly the same. Start with vocabulary, slowly go to broken sentences, long sentences, and gradually reach a paragraph.
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The premise of reciting is reading aloud, which is the most basic way to cultivate a sense of language. Reading a lot of English books often can help children get familiar with English pronunciation and intonation unconsciously, improve their perception and understanding of language, and thus cultivate a sense of language.
When you are familiar with the language sense of a certain paragraph of English, you can try to recite it slowly. After all, reading aloud and reciting are two concepts. Some children may have a good sense of language when reading English, and they are particularly fluent and not stuck, but once they recite it, they lose their sense of language and are completely at a loss. At this time, parents should give their children confidence and encouragement and let them recite step by step. Start with a sentence, go to a short paragraph of three or four sentences, and then go to a long paragraph, and slowly read the whole article.
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Listening, reading, imitating and reciting are all single-person actions, which can only be regarded as laying a good foundation. Language is a tool of communication. Parents should create as many opportunities for their children to communicate in English as possible, such as participating in English drama performances, oral English competitions, consulting foreign teachers, English winter camps and summer camps.
After communication, children can write down their feelings in words, and at the same time train their writing ability and enrich their vocabulary. It is also a step-by-step method, from the initial simple words and sentences to essays. The maturity and formation of English language sense is to think in English. Writing training is of great benefit to the development of English thinking ability and is also an important process to cultivate English language sense.
The formation of English language sense does not happen overnight. Children need to accumulate a lot of language knowledge and persevere in their studies. Only by attaching importance to English language practice and standardizing English language learning habits can children really form a good sense of language and learn English well!
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Language sense is simply "Practice makes perfect". Just as we listen to others speak their mother tongue, there are no obstacles; Just like we express our thoughts in our mother tongue, we don't need to make a draft, just open our mouth.
English language sense, according to the definition of Baidu Encyclopedia, "also known as English thinking, is a thinking process in which the human brain directly and unconsciously transforms language and semantics without logical translation strategies." Generally speaking, when we listen to others speak Chinese, we can know the meaning of each word without first analyzing the grammar and the meaning of each word. This is the role of the language center of the brain, that is, the sense of language. "
Speaking of English language sense, it always makes people feel mysterious, as if this is a skill that only English big coffee people have. This is actually a misunderstanding. English language sense is not a person's patent, everyone can have it, but the level is different.
In fact, anyone can get through the ceiling of listening, speaking, reading and writing through training and gain a sense of English language. In other words, the strength of English language sense is directly proportional to the input.
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Listening is the basis of speaking and the first level of language input. Only by listening clearly can we talk about accurate output and form a sense of language.
If you break through listening? Crazy English Li Yang, I suggest listening to a bad tape. Dr. Zheng Zanrong, a Korean scholar, put forward in his best-selling book Never Learn English that the first stage of learning English well is to "open your ears" and listen to two tapes completely. Even if you live in Korea, your English can reach the level of your mother tongue. "
When I was in college, I broke two tape recorders and several tapes in order to train my listening level. It is said that when Professor Zhong Daolong, the founder of the reverse method, was practicing English listening, several tape recorders and repeaters also broke down.
In the stage of English enlightenment, we call it "language sense enlightenment", and some people call it "grinding ears". Either way, the purpose is to train children's listening sense by listening to children's songs and other forms.
When you learn English at a higher stage, you should start listening to American TV dramas and improve your English language sense through living English. The most famous listening training textbook for American TV series is Friends. Many awesome people who took the GRE have watched Friends more than 10 times. The son of Hu Min, the founder of New Waterway, listened to his friends for many times before he was admitted to MIT.
Two days ago, I wrote an example of practicing oral English by introducing myself on TED. I spend five hours watching English TV plays every day, imitating them while watching. After several years, my spoken English has reached the level of my mother tongue.
This training method is called "shadow-practice" in technical terms, that is, follow-up training. "It is to follow the source language speaker almost synchronously in the same language, which can train the skills of listening and speaking synchronization and the distribution of attention. At the beginning of training, you can start at the same time as the source language. After practicing for a while, you can follow it for a while and get a sentence later than the source language. " {From Baidu Encyclopedia)
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Speaking English fluently is undoubtedly a concrete manifestation of good English awareness.
No matter what language, TPR teaching method is the first step to train oral English.
I have practiced "breaking ice English" with Xin Wei for three times, and I will continue reading. Before, I also recommended a set of TPR training books called Picture English. This set of books has no translation and audio, it is the original book. It will be difficult for ordinary readers to use it. This set of books is also three. I read it twice with Xin Wei. There is a saying that genius is the person who repeats the most times.
Besides textbooks, daily family conversations are an effective way to train oral English. For most readers, encouraging children to speak English is a big problem.
My family's training method-"one-minute speech", readers and friends can learn from it. One minute a day, oral English is not a dream.
In addition, retelling stories is a familiar method. After listening to many stories, parents can communicate with their children, guide them to tell stories and describe them in their own language.
Finally, talking to yourself without sparring is a good choice. Now there are many intelligent robots, including voice assistants on mobile phones, which can realize human-computer communication. As long as you learn to make full use of them, it is equivalent to having a free foreign teacher.
"Never leave your fist, never leave your mouth" is the only shortcut to speak English with a sense of language.
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The famous educator Suhomlinski once said: to judge whether a student can read, one is to see whether he has accumulated 200 hours of reading, and the other is to see whether he has accumulated 2000 hours of reading.
Reading is the most important means to improve English.
In 20/0/3, Sun Jingyan, a talented woman from Tsinghua, won the top prize in the Beijing Chinese College Entrance Examination (148). When talking about the "secret" of getting high marks in Chinese, she said, "She has never stopped reading for ten years, ranging from 20 minutes to 10 hours every day. Even in the third semester of high school, she has to take at least one hour to study every day. "
Like Chinese, English reading is the best way to cultivate a sense of language.
Suhomlinski believes that reading and reading must be combined. Since kindergarten, I have insisted on taking Xin Wei to do English morning reading every day. Over the past few years, her pronunciation and intonation have made great progress, with a little "foreign accent" and a strong sense of language.
Expanding reading is the easiest way to consolidate vocabulary, get familiar with sentence structure, word collocation and cultural background, which not only helps to improve English scores, but also improves reading level.
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Writing and speaking are both output training, and they are external forms to express English language sense.
Some people will say that you can write good articles as long as you read more books. This is not entirely correct. For writing, reading a lot is the foundation, but people who read a lot rarely write excellent articles.
What is the reason for the lack of writing training?
I have some experience in this field. I wrote 477 articles, which is a bit like writing an article. The biggest experience is to keep writing. If you don't write for a day, you feel unfamiliar, or "writing sense."
When training Xin Wei's "writing sense", I not only used the American primary school students' English writing manual "Wonderful Words", but also guided her to start her writing journey through the method of "one sentence a day".
In addition, "copying once a day" is also a way for me to copy the books of ancient scholars, so that Xin Wei can copy the articles he reads every morning to improve the children's writing level.
Imitating some classic articles is the only way for students with a certain foundation in English writing to improve their writing level. Reading is a process of internalization and absorption, while writing is a process of expression and output.
Rewriting is the secret of writing. Hemingway's masterpiece A Farewell to Arms has been revised 40 times only at the beginning. This is how language masters strive for perfection and become steel.