The baby is 3 years old and 2 months old, has been struggling with whether to start English enlightenment, his painful experience of English learning is still vivid, and he has been asking himself to be so cruel to preschool babies? Is this going to roll up? My own wisdom is no longer enough to answer this question, I began to look for the answer in the book, and finally had a clear idea, whether to do enlightenment, or we must first start with what are the specific benefits and meanings of enlightenment, and start with the end.
First, the benefits and significance of giving babies a second language enlightenment?
1. Different languages shape different modes of thinking and even give rise to different civilizations.
We all feel that English-speaking people are very direct and accurate, while we are similar, probably such a golden mean.
Such as the famous Amazon language Piraha! In Piraha, there are only numerals that represent one, two, and many. Experiments have also shown that their concept and awareness of numbers is very low, and some simple tasks, such as repeating the actions of the experimenter to pose a few batteries, once more than three numbers are involved, their performance begins to become very bad. The memory of numbers above three is also beyond their ability. This example fully shows that because their language lacks vocabulary for large numbers, their understanding of large numbers is also missing.
2. Learning a new language is embracing a new way of thinking
When you can learn and think in another language, and switch freely, you have an insight into the world than others, and the cognition you gain is richer and fuller. Charlemagne once said, "Learning a second language is like having a second soul".
3. Increase opportunities
If you are proficient in 4 or more languages, the quality and quantity of opportunities increases exponentially. Zhang Tongwan, the author of the book "I Taught Myself English in 100 Days to Flip My Life", achieved an annual salary of more than 2 million yuan in his 20s because he was proficient in four languages, far exceeding his peers.
4. Contribute to career development
Our beloved grandfather Yuan Longping, whose mother was an English teacher, enlightened him in English at a very young age, once wrote sincerely in a letter to his mother: "I can't imagine that without your English enlightenment, in the closed environment of that year, how could I read the world's most advanced scientific literature in English, and use a vision beyond that era to find the genetics masters Mendel and Morgan?" ”
5. Good English, have an advantageous subject, is conducive to building children's learning confidence
The college entrance examination is the test that everyone is most concerned about, and the score of each subject is 150 points in addition to the number of languages, which helps to improve the college entrance examination score; The difficulty of English in the college entrance examination is equivalent to the level of the fourth and fifth grades of primary school in the United States, if children can reach this level through early enlightenment, in junior high and high school, they can save time learning English to study other subjects and things they are interested in.
In the end, my conclusion was to do English enlightenment.
So what is the ultimate goal of English enlightenment?
2. The ultimate goal of English enlightenment
Test? College entrance examination? Have a good score to get into your dream university? Yes or no
As I understand the test results, the ultimate goal is to use English as a tool for free communication and communication, to be able to listen, speak, read and write. Through such tools, there is an additional channel to understand the different civilizations and cultures of the world, and life becomes more colorful and rich.
Third, how to enlighten your baby in English
1. The golden age of English enlightenment: 3-5 years old, at this time the baby likes to repeat, dare to express, strong sound discrimination ability, can hear very subtle differences, if their English is very good, you can directly carry out bilingual output of Chinese and English from birth.
2. Change your thinking: The understanding of English enlightenment has always been about instilling knowledge and learning, and the thought of learning makes me feel uncomfortable
Indoctrinated from an early age: learn the sea without end; head suspension, spines; Obediently sit on the small bench and write on your back.... I feel that God, this is too cruel for the baby, it is a kind of harm and annihilation of the child's heart, the heart once rejected and resisted, until later I began to slowly like reading, like to open a new door through reading, find that learning itself is a happy thing, through their own growth to bring about a positive change, let themselves and their family's life better and better, such a happy and beautiful thing, why is it bitter? It hurts? Inhumanizing?
The reason why I feel pain is because I have been planted with learning pain, difficult feelings and methods since childhood, if from the baby, change the way of thinking, dilute the concept of learning, integrate into life, plant happy, beautiful feelings, the learning process is just a daily life and mother full of love games, interaction? I believe that the result will be different, you can try it like this, just mentioned 2 very important points:
The first point: change the learning method: Here will mention two completely different methods of language learning: learning and acquisition.
Learning method: I have learned the method of English since I was a child, starting with 26 English letters, then words, grammar, doing practice problems, the process does not need to be said, everyone has feelings.
Acquisition: Through a large number of comprehensible inputs, children subtly learn a language through repeated contact and use. The process summary uses a large number of original audio, video and books. In this learning method, the child does not passively wait for others to tell him about English, but summarizes the meaning and grammatical results of words from a large number of language materials, so as to achieve "self-learning without a teacher". I don't memorize words or grammar, but I am accumulating new English expressions anytime, anywhere.
Zhang Tongwan's method of learning English in 100 days is also a learned method, but his way is more suitable for adults, through a large number of repeated listening, following English movies, while boldly opening his mouth and reading, and finally achieving what it means to hear this English sentence, without the need for an inner translation and transformation process, and at the same time encounter the corresponding context, English blurts out, more like a muscle training.
Mr. Xu Huohui of "Chinese English Self-study Method Course" also has the same philosophy, starting with a lot of listening.
It can be seen that the acquisition method is the correct way to enlighten the English language.
The second point: make learning fun
Through cartoons, audio, picture books, games, daily situations and the baby's interaction, let the baby feel that this is not learning, but a happy time, feel that the safety, happiness, happiness with the mother is very, very important, even if you grow up, and then think of English, it is still full of happiness, the memory has games with the mother, there is the mother hugging him to tell the picture book story, but also become a way of a beautiful parent-child relationship, isn't it very fragrant?
3. Parental mindset:
Let go of anxiety: if my English is not good enough, I don't have time, my children don't like me to teach, there are at least 3 solutions to any problem, please think patiently and carefully, you will definitely find a way. There are many platforms for English enlightenment on the market, you can go and learn about them.
Let go of expectations: Why is my child still not speaking English after learning for so long? If it is really a long time, it is really to find the reason, if it is only 3-6 months and has not spoken, please be patient, each baby's rhythm is different, the power of belief is very strong.
Keep children exploring and happy: If the method child is more repulsive, stop first, whether it is a child or an adult, when there are emotions, it is difficult to absorb it, you may wish to stop, do not let the child plan
For the baby's English enlightenment I have just begun, just before starting, let myself understand some English enlightenment laws and other people's successful experience, so that less blind, confused, less detours, more determination, more inner strength, while practicing, while adjusting, let go of the high expectations for the success of the baby, This is just a small energy to accompany the baby's growth happily, belonging to the good time of mom and dad and the baby together.