Children learn English, no matter how old they are, they should be exposed to authentic English every day. They should read English books with their eyes and listen to English sounds with their ears. If children are exposed to English at the age of 3 or 4, they can look at English picture books. Children around the age of 8 can read some original works supplemented by words and pictures. Learning English is a process of edification, and children will naturally learn it after a long time.
There is no problem that children can't keep up with English.
Some parents worry that their children can't read the original English books. In fact, there is no problem that children cannot keep up with English. An 8-year-old child and a 40-year-old child have different feelings about learning English. For an 8-year-old child, reading some excellent children's literature is very helpful, because he is exposed to the best English. Gorky once said: Excellent children's literature works should not only keep simple and simple style, but also ensure the quality of literature. Only the real skill can achieve it.
It is an instinct for children to learn English. Some children go to Australia with their parents when they are very young. At first, these children couldn't understand the Australian child in class, but they would follow him. So language learning is a process of absorbing nutrients and learning slowly. Therefore, parents should first consider immersing their children in the English learning environment.
A teacher at St Paul's Primary School in Hong Kong asked 8-and 9-year-old pupils to read Charlotte's Web. The pupils read along, and then they absorbed the nutrition of the words themselves. Nutrition absorbed in childhood is beneficial for life.
So I suggest that 8-year-old children can get in touch with some original English books, which are soul mates for children, because in the United States, these books are read by 8-year-old children.
There is a parent in Beijing who asks the third grade children to recite words and compositions before going to bed. This composition is not an original composition, but a revised English composition. This parent is very strict. She asked her children not to go to bed if they couldn't recite this short passage before going to bed. Because parents hold on tight, children's primary school English is better than others. But after high school, children have no stamina to learn English. Reading some slightly more difficult English is like looking at flowers in the fog, so English has not become a great advantage for her to enter the university. Later, my mother complained afterwards, saying that raising children to learn English from an early age has also paid a lot in all aspects of the family. At that time, she thought that the child won at the starting line, but she didn't expect to be similar to other children after high school. In fact, this phenomenon is very common in China, but in other words, did we really win at the starting line? Who did we beat at the starting line?
What is the starting line? Singapore primary schools have special writing exercise books, and write a composition every week. The exercise book is based on three cartoons. Think about the fourth picture and then write a composition. Their junior three students can write a 200-word English composition, while our children have never written such a long composition until they graduated from high school. If you look at the reading level in Singapore, you can read an original English book with almost no pictures smoothly in the third grade in Singapore. This is winning at the starting line.
In fact, it is correct for parents to strictly urge their children to learn English. In Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Japan, young people aged around 65,438+05 are excellent in English, which is the result of their parents' tight grasp. Pupils learn from him. He is young, has no fear of English and is not too rebellious. Therefore, it is very effective to strictly require children to learn English in primary schools. But the problem is that when parents catch their children to learn English, they should focus on practical application. Parents should urge their children to live in a foreign language, and life is education.
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