English Enlightenment: How to help children learn English and turn "stagnant water" into "living water"?

Oral poster

Some parents don't know where to start when using 10 oral posters. Some people even put it on the shelf and haven't used it once in a year or two. It's a waste of such interesting English enlightenment materials. Below Miao Dad shares some effective methods that have been proved by countless treasure parents.

Method 1: Two oral posters a day, once in the morning and once in the evening, 15 days, during which no posts can be posted, and parents can't speak English. /kloc-after 0/5 days, guide the children to follow, and then follow after listening, so that the children will not feel tired and are willing to learn.

Method 2: If the child has no basic knowledge of English, the child has been ordering an oral poster for the first five days, and the parents don't speak English. After 5 days, click on the second oral poster. 15 days later, click on two posters for five days, one for *** 15 days, and then guide the children to follow.

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How to improve efficiency

Nowadays, more and more children are beginning to learn English. Why do many children learn for a long time without making progress? Although you can't get quick success and instant benefit, it is very necessary to find the root of the problem through constant reflection. In fact, most children just learn English every day, and the efficiency is only 5%.

Why do you say that? Because language is a tool for communication, it is not surprising that English learning is inefficient. So, how to improve the efficiency of learning English?

(1) Learn English in life. In the English enlightenment stage, the best application is to learn English in life and use English in daily life. Starting from the action short sentences of TPR life scenes, it gradually expanded to the question-and-answer dialogue.

(2) communicate with people. Compared with when we were learning a foreign language, children's language environment has been greatly improved, and there are more and more opportunities to speak English with foreigners. Specifically, it can be divided into the following two types.

First, foreign teachers. With the continuous development of science and technology, online foreign teachers are gradually entering the homes of ordinary people. Once out of reach, even children in remote areas can talk to foreign teachers through smartphones or tablets.

Second, tourists in scenic spots. Now, China people don't need to go abroad, and they can see foreign tourists from all corners of the country in all major scenic spots in China. Encouraging children to speak English with tourists in scenic spots and introducing the customs of China is also a very good opportunity to use English.

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English corner

In many universities and parks in big cities, there are some English corners with their own characteristics. When Miao's father was in college, he often went to the English corner to practice his oral English with foreign teachers or other students. By chatting with different strangers in English, he exercised his courage and speaking ability, which really benefited a lot.

Many children will also choose to go to the park to find someone to practice their spoken English. Undoubtedly, children are generally bold and dare to speak English. The problem now is that people don't seem to know what to say except introducing themselves and talking about the weather, and there are often embarrassing scenes of silence.

Therefore, besides practicing oral English in English corner, it is very necessary to make some preparations. You can choose a topic every week, such as hobbies, social hotspots, experience in learning English, etc. After the theme is selected, search some relevant information from the internet and sort it out. Read it when you have time and look up new words.

In short, don't fight unprepared, lest you have nothing to say when chatting with others and waste their time.

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Guiding problem

Share a true story. During college, two students planned to practice oral English in pairs, but after a long time of practice, there was no great improvement. Often when two people are talking, they get stuck and don't know what to say.

So, one of the students changed his strategy and guided him by asking questions. As a result, the problem was solved at once. The other party not only had something to say, but also talked for an hour or two. Therefore, oral English training needs to find a language partner first, and parents are children's best language partners. Secondly, use questions to guide children to speak English.

The oral question preparation card recommended by Miao's father can help parents solve the confusion of not knowing what questions to ask, including all aspects of life, and can effectively help children speak English. Then use the advanced question card to help children speak English freely while the iron is hot.

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Change "Dead Water" into "Living Water"

Some parents think that their children are young, have short study time, can't speak English and can't answer in English. In fact, the key to the problem lies in guidance. For example, when parents ask: Where do you sleep? If the child can't say bed, parents can describe the meaning of sleep through actions, and at the same time keep saying: bed, repeat it ten times, and the child will say it. This is actually learning the word bed.

For example, teaching towels can also use this question: what do you use to wash your face? Then while doing the action, he pointed to the towel and said: towel.

Some people say that English is like a pond, only water flows in and no water flows out. The pond is stagnant water, not living water, and it will soon stink. Therefore, we should learn to live and train the output at the same time. Most importantly, both input and output should be used in life scenes, not isolated input and output. Only in this way can we really turn stagnant water into living water.

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Passive listening

If you pay a little attention to the information of English enlightenment, you will often hear or see the concept of "grinding your ears". The so-called "grinding ears" is simply listening to audio materials and training children's English listening.

Research shows that grinding ears 100 hour can make children not contradict a language; Grinding ears for 300 hours can make children get used to a language; Ear grinding time 1000 hours can make children gradually change from input to output.

However, it should be noted that when grinding ears, we must pay attention to step by step and choose listening materials suitable for children's understanding level, which is called "understandable input" in professional terms. Otherwise, even listening to 10000 hours is an invalid input.

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Enlightenment trilogy

Now everyone's family English enlightenment can be mainly divided into three types:

First, in theory. This type of parents constantly collect and absorb various theoretical schools and constantly change their enlightenment methods.

Second, data control. Parents have collected a lot of enlightenment materials, ranging from books to videos, but they don't have time to insist on using them all.

Third, it is practical. Parents communicate with their children in English in daily life.

The best enlightenment route is to combine the above three types, namely: idea (thinking)+teaching content+application. First of all, we should understand the basic English enlightenment concepts, such as: listening and speaking first, TPR (total body response) teaching method, natural spelling and so on.

Secondly, there should be scientific and practical teaching contents, such as rhythmic nursery rhymes, TPR flash cards for Miao Dad's English enlightenment, Oxford reading tree and so on. Last but not least, the application of theory and teaching materials. Only living English learning can really help children improve their English learning efficiency and cultivate their English thinking.

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