1. Attach importance to cultivating children's interest in learning English.
The phrase "interest is the best teacher" is familiar to people, but it is often ignored by parents in real life. Some parents often carry out education on the importance of English: telling their children about national construction, personal future and even future income; Also, talk about how you used to learn by rote-"head hanging beam, cone biting"; Or how I want to learn but I can't, and the regret that I was born at an untimely time. I don't know, because the child is still young, I can't think of it so far, and I don't want to "hang the beam and bite the bone"; In addition, some parents often take the form of "preaching" and nagging. If they talk too much every day, their children will get bored. Over time, they even had a "rebellious mentality." They said, "You want me to learn, but you keep nagging. I won't learn, and I won't learn for you." All my parents' hard work was in vain.
Modern education emphasizes that students are the masters of learning, and students' main role should be fully mobilized and brought into play in teaching, that is, students' learning mainly depends on internal driving force and internal cause, that is, interest and purpose. For children, first of all, let them feel that learning English is fun and interesting, and communicating in English is useful. Only when they are constantly attracted by the fun and success in learning can they keep learning, and then they can learn well and still want to learn.
How can we arouse children's enthusiasm for learning and make them interested in learning? The selection of teaching materials, teachers' teaching and parents' education should be carried out according to children's own physiological and psychological characteristics. To sum up, the main features are:
(1) Image thinking gives priority to development, while abstract thinking is developing. So their imitativeness and memory are good and fast. They are interested in concrete, colorful and rhythmic forms and methods.
(2) Curious and active. Therefore, they are easy to ask questions and be attracted by new content and new ways and means; They like to do actions. If they are guided to do actions with different parts of their bodies to express their learning content, they will be interested.
(3) Strong desire for performance, like to be praised, like success, like to be competitive. Therefore, individuals or groups are particularly active and devoted in class competition. They like to raise their hands to answer questions, but sometimes they say "I will" and "I will" before they have mastered it, showing the appearance of not answering when called. This is not a sign of their dishonesty and modesty, but a sign of their characteristics. When they are a little older, they are often not so good. Correct encouragement and guidance can mobilize and protect children's learning enthusiasm and promote their success.
(4) Learning is obviously emotional and easy to be emotional. Therefore, they are interested in their favorite teachers, the content and methods they like to learn, and they will shine with their eyes, dance and devote themselves wholeheartedly; Otherwise, you will lose face, sit still, study hard, and even make trouble.
2。 Parents should cooperate with teaching in the following aspects.
(1) Support and help children prepare teaching AIDS and make learning tools with teachers. For example, animal toys, car and boat models and pictures are all useful teaching AIDS. For another example, it is more effective to help children make two sets of learning tools, such as "this", "that" and "here/there", when they learn related words or sentences such as "place" and "orientation". If two identical teaching AIDS are placed at different distances, "this" can be expressed more vividly. It is particularly noteworthy that in the process of preparing these teaching AIDS and learning tools, children actively participate in learning, that is, effective learning and review.
(2) Encourage children to boldly do actions with them. Such as greeting, polite language response, playing games such as Dollhouse, drawing, coloring, cutting and spelling are not only effective learning, but also cordial communication between parents and children.
(3) Encourage children to learn from real life. If you put English labels on household items, the whole family will learn together; Review related words and sentences when going to parks and shops; Take the initiative to talk with foreign guests.
(4) cherish the small prizes and small productions that children get. Show the little red flowers and flags that children get in class in their "learning corner"; Showing their certificates and prizes and inviting friends and relatives to visit them properly will play a good encouraging role; Parents can also give their children toys and other "grand prizes" to encourage them to continue their efforts after their children have accumulated a certain number of "small prizes" as promised.
(5) Insist on encouragement, without adding or criticizing, and let children learn happily. For this reason, parents should never compare their children's shortcomings with other children and say, "You see people always take the top few, don't you?" We should know that each child's foundation, body, hobbies, especially language ability are different, or even very different. Casual comparison will only reduce his interest in learning; In addition, both textbooks and tapes have "talking about rap", which is the content and form that children like, and it is also easy to learn and remember. It is an important part of teaching materials. Children often sing after school. It can be said that this is a continuation of class and should be praised by parents, but many parents turn a blind eye to it and are often eager to ask "What did you learn today" and "Did you learn", which will immediately curb the enthusiasm of children. On the other hand, if parents like to listen to their children singing and praise them happily, it will further stimulate their interest in learning. Moreover, most children "talk eloquently" in class and tell their parents that they will, but they often "don't" at home. This is because the classroom has a specific language environment, and they have just learned and practiced. Leaving the teacher and the classroom will certainly be different. Parents should understand them, create conditions to encourage them to listen to the recording more, and don't criticize them, let alone blame them.
(6) When the school changes teachers, it should cooperate with the children's work in time. Children, especially young children, often especially like and support the teachers who teach first, and are more difficult to accept the teachers who take over later. It is also common for amateur schools to change teachers. Therefore, in this case, parents must explain the reasons for the change in time, especially each teacher has his own advantages and disadvantages, and everyone will encounter such things that are not as good as they wish. They should adapt themselves quickly, don't care too much, and so on. If left unchecked, it will easily affect children's interest in learning and emotions.
(7) Learning from children and worshiping them as teachers will also greatly improve children's interest in learning and the degree of serious study. Studying with parents and teaching grandma English will make children happy, but parents should arrange their own time, preferably for a quarter of an hour every day, to show their seriousness and sincerity. Practice has proved that relaxed and happy study can fully arouse and exert students' interest, enthusiasm and potential, thus enhancing the memory effect and mastering the ability to use foreign languages; On the contrary, dull, boring and tense study can only inhibit thinking activities and reduce learning effect. We put forward some of the above methods in order to help parents create a relaxed and happy learning environment and atmosphere for their children after class, so that they can enjoy learning English. It can be said that if children want to learn well, they must first "love learning" and "enjoy learning", which is repeatedly emphasized by modern education.
3。 Cultivate scientific learning methods and good learning, and attach importance to the cultivation of listening and speaking ability.
In the book Learn to Live, UNESCO points out that in the future society, illiterate people will not be illiterate people, but those who don't know how to learn and can't update their knowledge by themselves. Parents want their children to grow up in the future society, so they must pay attention to the guidance of learning methods and the formation of learning habits.
(1) Create conditions for children to listen to recordings more often.
The first "forgetting curve" drawn by German psychologist Ebbinghaus shows that people's initial forgetting curve is "sharply declining" for the materials they have learned, but it gradually slows down with the progress of time, that is to say, forgetting is "fast first and then slow down", which reminds people to grasp "review in time". Psychologists also tell people that if we adopt "partial memory" for irrelevant materials, such as words, phrases and sentences in a foreign language, it is best to remember one part first and then another. Therefore, parents had better play a recording for their children after they come home from school. Take Cambridge children's English textbooks as an example. You can put the dialogue part first and repeat it several times, so that the children can listen and say it again and again. Then put the key words or sentences several times, and then put the "singing while talking" part to divide the ten minutes into three parts; It's not long but interesting to review the textbooks just learned in time, so that children can listen, speak and sing. It's much better than reviewing them just before class two days later, or ignoring them as soon as the recording is played. Of course, after getting up early and before going to bed, playing a recording when children are washing will have gratifying results if they persist for a long time. This is also to cultivate children's awareness and ability to master scientific learning methods from an early age. Educational psychologists have a lot of research and achievements on how to improve the effect of understanding, memorizing and applying knowledge. You can refer to related books.
Also, for beginners and children, learning English does not emphasize reading, spelling and writing, but mainly strengthens the training of "listening" and "speaking". Just like babies can't talk, learning to listen first is the process of developing potential language, so they can understand and make simple reactions first, such as identifying someone, something or something, or a sideline. Painting, etc. Or respond with body movements, that is, conduct preliminary communication. If they can understand and respond, they will be interested and feel successful; Reading and writing letters are correspondingly backward, and writing sentences is even more backward. Therefore, in children's English teaching, the first thing is to strengthen listening training and oral training, and then the cultivation of reading and writing ability. Poor English listening and speaking ability and poor communication ability are problems in English teaching in the past, which should be improved in modern children's English teaching. To this end, parents must cooperate with the school to ask their children not to be too hasty, not to ask for the "four skills", that is, to pay attention to listening, speaking, reading and writing at the same time, and not to tell their children grammar knowledge, but to create conditions for their children to listen more, listen to pure English more, get used to listening to music, pay attention to the correctness of pronunciation, intonation and tone, listen more times, and then follow up and do it. Listening and speaking more can make children "blurt out" as soon as possible. "Export into a sentence" (even a sentence represented by one or two words), because a sentence is the smallest unit of language.
Furthermore, just like Chinese has four tones, English also has pronunciation requirements, such as "long tone", "short tone" and "diphthongs", which are different from Chinese. We should pay attention to study and pronounce correctly, otherwise we will not be able to learn authentic English.
(2) Cultivate children to pay attention to class, especially the teacher's mouth, movements and posture.
The survey we have done shows that most parents will ask their children "What did you get in the exam today" or "Are you obedient" at home, but I don't know that such concern can only make children think that learning is for grades, just explain a score to parents, or just answer "obedient" at will. If parents ask specific and enlightening questions such as "What new lessons are you learning today", "What questions are the teachers asking" and "Can you teach me to speak", doing so often can urge children to pay attention to the class and form a good habit of paying attention to the class.
When learning English, pay special attention to the teacher's mouth shape when pronouncing. For example, words with the sound of "A" and "man" require a wide mouth to hold two fingers, while words with the sound of "E" and "[e]" such as bed, leg and men require a large mouth to hold one finger. Or "a few men", white I and Y, My and my are all diphthongs' [AI]'. As we know, diphthongs's hair requires a "sliding" change process from big to flat. Thus, it is very important to learn English, and it is also very important to pay attention to the teacher's mouth shape in class.
In addition, language is used to express thoughts and feelings and communicate, so it is often accompanied by tone, action and posture, especially when expressing people, subject and object, orientation and emotion. Research shows that when people communicate, body language accounts for 55% and voice language accounts for 45%, which is why the effect of listening to recorded reports is far less than that of listening to the speaker himself on the spot. This also shows that it is very important to pay attention to the teacher's posture, movements and posture when learning English.
(3) Develop good study habits
The power of habit is a great and lasting power. Many important things are accomplished by the power of habit, and good habits can be cultivated. Therefore, "formative education" is an important content and link of basic education, and it should also be an important content and link that every parent should pay attention to and master when educating their children. Some researchers at home and abroad point out that the age of three to eight is the key period for learning a foreign language, and people agree that infancy and childhood are the key periods for forming good habits. Therefore, it can be said that in the process of children learning English, it is much more important for parents to let their children develop good study habits than to let their children learn more knowledge or get good grades. Parents should help their children develop the following study habits:
① Listen carefully and patiently. That is to say, listen to the recording attentively first, and then follow the theory. Don't say it in a hurry, lest you rush to follow it at the beginning of listening, which will lead to the problem that you will only follow it, or you will not say it without the teacher's reading. You can't be sure, because you can't hear. It is not conducive to the improvement of listening and the cultivation and improvement of one's independent speaking ability.
Speak loudly and don't be shy. Parents should constantly encourage their children to read aloud, speak and answer questions, which is conducive to clearly expressing themselves, helping others to correct their mistakes, and also helping to cultivate children's good character of being bold, cheerful and confident.
3. Raise your hand and practice more. Children should be encouraged to actively raise their hands to speak, answer questions and do "situational performances" in class, which will increase the opportunities for practice in class and get more timely guidance and help from classmates.
(4) boldly connect with practical actions. As mentioned above, human voice language and body language complement each other. Doing actions can help children understand and express language, and also help them remember. Parents should also encourage their children to "discover" new people and things in the picture, boldly create actions and dialogues, and let them "learn while doing", "learn while discovering" and "learn while laughing". This kind of study is very conducive to developing children's imagination and creativity and perfecting children's personality.
(5) Pay attention to timeliness. It is necessary to cultivate children's concept of time from an early age, and adopt various methods to encourage children to develop and make up a good habit of "dedicating time to themselves and keeping time for themselves", that is, concentrate on learning, not eating or playing with cats; Having fun while playing, parents can also try to find time to play with them to show encouragement. Learning efficiency has improved, the task has been completed ahead of schedule, and the time saved is at your own disposal. Parents should never add homework.
6. Don't copy more homework. As mentioned above, listening and speaking are the main and leading factors for children to learn English. Reading and writing, especially writing, are gradually entered and required. So please don't copy the homework beyond the teacher's requirements. An experiment shows that copying the same textbook 4 times and 40 times is almost the same; And the child's bones are still growing and developing, and the seams on his fingers are not long enough. If they write for a long time in primary school, they will not only be tired, but also hurt their knuckles. All this strongly reminds us, "Don't do wrong with kindness".
There are many requirements for cultivating children's scientific learning methods and good study habits. The most important thing is "training". Because habit is a dynamic stereotype, it can only be formed after long-term repeated training. If the child can "speak English loudly" once or twice under your reminder, he can only say that "he has the" behavior "of speaking English loudly, not that he has become a" habit ". For this, it takes time for us to be patient and insist repeatedly that "habit becomes nature". At the same time, it needs constant encouragement, also called "strengthening". Correct behavior is encouraged and strengthened in time, which can make him want to "do it again" and "do it next time" and form good habits. Of course, it is also important for parents to cooperate with the school, unify their requirements for their children and give timely guidance and help. In addition, in the process of children's learning, parents can "time" with their children and make careful calculations. We can know that you can remember two sentences or seven or eight words in ten minutes, and it is worthwhile to stick to it every day, which can help children understand the value of ten minutes in detail and form a good habit of cherishing time.
(4) Connecting with practice
In addition to the above-mentioned labeling, go to communities, parks, playgrounds, shops and so on. Learn and review words, words, sentences and dialogues about life scenes. Parents can also encourage their children to send cards and invitations to new friends on holidays and birthdays, especially to design and make cards and letters with their children, which not only strengthens the feelings between parents and children or friends, but also is a sense of innovation.
It can be said that the cultivation of learning ability is far more important than learning knowledge. Learning English from an early age can greatly improve learning efficiency and constantly update knowledge structure, which can benefit children for life.