Título original: If you miss the critical language period, won’t you be able to learn English well?
Yangcheng Evening News reporter He Ning
At the stage of children’s preschool education, many parents are most concerned about their children’s English enlightenment. To capture the sensitive period of their children’s language, many parents listen to their children’s ears in English from the moment they are born; However, many parents of elementary school students find that learning English in preschool seems futile: the words and phrases that children knew before are all forgotten in primary school. For prospective primary school students entering first grade in September next year, how well should the English subject be connected?
Learning English should lay a solid foundation step by step
“Children’s language learning has a ‘critical period’ or ‘window period’, but this time frame is very long, from 3 to 9 years. Children’s learning of English can be grasped , but parents should not be overly anxious. If they do not master the correct enlightenment method, it is very likely that the children will get bored with English when they are in the middle and high grades.” Yi Min, the primary school principal no. has found through years of experience teaching English that interest is the best teacher. In the learning process, parents must be utilitarian, stay focused, and adhere to the long term.
Yi Min said, “Children who start learning English from kindergarten are actually under pressure. These pressures often stem from their parents’ high expectations. We all know that the price of English lessons after school, especially those with foreign teachers, it is very high. It is not cheap. Many families who value their children’s English spend a lot of money on learning English since their children were very young. However, it is very important to learn English English step by step and lay a solid foundation.If the mastery is not firm, once the vocabulary increases in the middle and high school grades of elementary school, the academic pressure will increase, and some children will lose confidence, motivation and interest in learning. ‘learning English.”
It’s not too late to start learning English in first grade
Ms. Xie’s daughter is now in the second year of middle school at a prestigious school in Guangzhou. Her grades in English have always been among the best in her class. She didn’t learn English systematically before elementary school. Ms. Xie believes that when her daughter first entered elementary school, her English was really lagging behind in the class. Many students had learned English in kindergarten, and some were still bilingual in kindergarten, and the their speaking and listening skills were far ahead. Ms. Xie said, “In retrospect, I think the most correct thing I did at that time was to correct my mentality. At that time, we only started learning English in middle school, but there are many there were still many outstanding ones. The key to learning languages lies in taking the time. It’s not too late to start learning in first grade.”
Ms. Xie begins by cultivating her daughter’s study habits and urges her to earnestly complete the homework assigned by the teacher every day. Ms. Xie said, “The English homework in the first and second grades of elementary school is actually not many, and it is also very simple, but I ask my daughter to lay a solid foundation. The dialogues in the textbook must not be only read aloud, but also written silently, and every word must be written. I can’t make mistakes. My daughter is very obedient, memorizes textbooks thoroughly, and can get top marks on every English test. This not only makes him develop a careful habit, but also greatly stimulates his interest in learning English.In the third grade, he can independently read simple original storybooks in English, and his interest in learning is stronger .
Memorandum:
The parent-child relationship and interest in reading are much more important than mastering the number of words
“Learning a foreign language from an early age, for young children, is more about improving learning ability, rather than benefiting language ability. In the absence of context (communication, language environment for communication), premature , excessive and unacceptable It would waste limited time and even kill interest”. be overly anxious , 3-9 years old is a sensitive period for children to learn languages, and it is completely in time to start learning in the first grade of elementary school.
He Ling suggested that parents, in order to stimulate children’s interest in learning English, could also use selected original English nursery rhymes and nursery rhymes for targeted pronunciation enlightenment, so that children can receive cues vowels from an early age and cultivate a sense of English rhythm.
Parents with a relatively good foundation in English may wish to accompany their children in parent-child English picture books. “If the parents’ English pronunciation is relatively standard, they can take their children to read together; if the pronunciation is not too standard, they can use audio. Parent-child reading has established itself A good parent-child relationship cultivates ‘children’s interest in reading, which is much more important than the number of words a child masters.’
