Last weekend, little K was riding his bike and shouting: I'm fast!
When the mother rode a shared bicycle and burst into tears in the back, the English enlightenment for a year, the baby finally output, and as soon as she opened her mouth, it was a sentence.
Surprised, back home, he inevitably began to test his son's English proficiency, opened his English textbook, and listened to the baby read it accurately:
I see with my eyes.
I hear with my ears.
I touch with my hands.
I smell with my noses.
I taste with my mouse.
After being violently encouraged, the child seems to have opened the second vein of Ren Dou and began to speak English from time to time, such as eating a meal, suddenly picking up a large egg and saying "The egg is very big".
At that moment, I felt that this year's efforts were not in vain!
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Little K's English initiation is synchronized with kindergarten.
He attended a bilingual kindergarten and had 20 minutes of English lessons every day, but when he returned home, he never listened to little K's words.
I consulted the children in the kindergarten who had gone to the kindergarten for more than two years, but there was still almost no output. I am more convinced that English enlightenment should take the route of family-oriented and school-assisted.
Having been immersed in Mao Mama for so long, I probably know a few wonderful ways to enlighten parent-child English: nursery rhymes, picture books, grading, animation, audio, point reading pen...
But in fact, how to make good use of these resources is the focus.
We encountered many obstacles on the road to enlightenment this year, and we were eventually "strangled" by me one by one.
Today I would like to share the confusion and difficulties that we may all encounter in the family enlightenment, and how I broke through with Little K.
01 How to judge whether the child understands?
Especially if we have studied for a year and hardly opened our mouths, parents will be anxious: Does this child understand or not? To what extent do you understand it?
First of all, the first criterion for judging is that the child likes to watch and is willing to watch.
Because no one is willing to focus on what they can't understand, whether it is a picture book or an animation, if the child can focus on watching, if there is still a "smile" feedback in the wonderful place, parents can rest assured that the child is effectively absorbing.
Secondly, parents can slowly increase the code from "one-step instructions" to "multi-step instructions" when conducting English conversations.
As far as the mother tongue is concerned, children can understand "one-step instructions" at the age of one, "two-step dependent instructions" for more than two years old, "two-step non-correlation instructions" for three years old, and "multi-step complex instructions" for four years old.
Little K, help your mother bring the towel over.
Little K, help mom bring the towel over and hang it on the balcony.
Little K, help your mother bring the towel and close the door by the way.
Little K, help mom bring the towel over and dry it on the balcony, and then we went into the room and took a nap.
The same is true of English, parents are not greedy at first, starting with "one-step instructions" to start the dialogue, testing the child's acceptance, and then adjusting the difficulty of the conversation according to the child's ability.
02 What should I do if I don't like to learn English?
This should be a problem that many children will encounter.
When I introduce the very good resources that Little K has used to my friends, one of the most common sentences I hear is: My children only look at Chinese.
In helping children adapt to English to like English, I also groped for a long time, and came to the conclusion that I must try more and then do what I like.
I started with nursery rhymes, I bought all the very well-known nursery rhyme picture books such as Mother Goose, child's play, Rainbow Rabbit and so on (still in pain), and tried one by one, and the child will immediately tell you what you like.
Among these dozens of nursery rhymes, Little K liked only 10, so I took out these 10 songs for him to read and listen to repeatedly.
What to do at this stage is not to worry about the silver, try to provide a "library" for the child, and let the child choose the content they like.
The same is true for choosing animations, and parents need to be a resource provider.
I originally collected animated stories with various themes and styles such as animals, dinosaurs, cars, fairy tales, etc., and finally Little K chose animal nursery rhymes (like a concubine?). ), not tired of watching.
So it's not that the child doesn't like it, but how many choices does the child have?
03 Where is the degree of repeated viewing?
Many parents should know that it is normal for children to watch a book or an animation repeatedly.
But when the child sees the 10th time, many parents begin to be uneasy again, this child looks at the same thing every day, how to progress? How do I learn something new?
Little K is vividly embodied in this point. Like a set of books, you can read it repeatedly for a month, ignore other books; like an animation, or even like one of the episodes of the animation, you can watch it repeatedly for months without getting tired, and you can poke his laughing hole every time.
K's longest love record is "Tire Town School" in the English graded animation Little Fox, the 72-episode animation has been watched for 5 months so far, listened to for 5 months, and each episode can be reversed.
Not only am I not flustered, but I am also very happy, because the child's dedication to watching the animation repeatedly is the only way for them to learn.
Children are subject to brain development and cognitive development, and they can't remember what's in a video at once.
For the first time, maybe they remembered a few key characters in the video;
The second time, perhaps he remembered the protagonist's name;
The third time, probably he remembered a few words;
The fourth time, you may have learned a sentence...
Therefore, watching many times is not to invalidally repeat the absorption, but to absorb a little more each time.
04 Teach words or teach sentences?
In English initiation, whether it is daily dialogue, reading picture books or watching animations, I teach sentences directly.
Just like a child learning his mother tongue, it is never learned by parents holding brick cards over and over again.
After Little K flew out of "I'm fast", I re-watched episodes 9-11 of "Tire Town School" and found that in just 6 minutes, the words "fast" and "slow" appeared no less than 10 times.
And the key words are used in different contexts, and the child's final output is naturally a sentence.
You are fast.
You are too slow.
Don't go too fast.
Jack slow down.
But next time go slow.
05 Is grinding ears really useful?
I am a picture book, animation, audio three resources go hand in hand, the tried and tested method is to learn the picture book and video into audio, the use of fragmented time or night before going to bed to play to the child to listen, so that both exercise hearing, but also protect vision.
Most of us are trained to be dumb English because we do not follow the basic order of language learning: listen-speak-read-write.
"Listening" is the first step in the enlightenment of English, so it is very important to grind your ears on the basis of understanding.
Each child's acceptance is different, like Little K, after carefully watching the picture book or video 3 times, you can understand it.
When listening to the audio at night, Little K will repeat the content of the story to me from time to time, or when he hears interesting places, he will follow the action and laugh with it.
Listening to audio is the cheapest and most effective method of English enlightenment I have ever seen, and you must use it.
epilogue
The resources for family English enlightenment are nothing more than dialogue, picture books, ratings, animations, and audio, and how to use these resources well is the focus.
I am very grateful for my seriousness, helping my child to learn English step by step, and building his interest and ability in English learning in the most harmless way, which I hope will be used by those of you who are confused on the road to enlightenment.