Grinding ears is actually a common name for listening to input. The reason why grinding is not irrigation reflects different views on children-children are independent subjects, and listening to English materials is an active choice because they like the rhythm, stories and plots. Adults can guide and help what to listen to and how to listen, but they can't make choices instead of children.
In English Enlightenment Not to Be Missed —— A Road Map of Children's English in China, I briefly summarized the materials for grinding ears. These materials include: children's songs, nursery rhymes, cartoons, picture books and audio. Through these materials, we can improve our listening comprehension and form a good sense of language.
According to the cognitive development level at different stages, the materials and emphasis of ear grinding for 0-6-year-old babies are different. It is very important to cultivate the sense of rhythm and rhythm of language from nursery rhymes in the early education of English-speaking countries, as well as the development of our children's Chinese mother tongue. Look at the Chinese class in kindergarten. Children's songs and nursery rhymes play an important role.
Unfortunately, in the past, our English education started directly from words, ignoring the most important link of language sense training. Nowadays, many older children lack this link, and they also carry out English enlightenment, and the English they read is often stiff and lacks aesthetic feeling. This will also have different degrees of influence on future English communication, independent reading and writing. Therefore, we suggest grinding ears from children's songs, especially those well-made children's songs, to enhance the baby's sense of music and beauty.
/kloc-babies under 0/year old, voice discrimination ability. According to foreign research, babies within 9 months are citizens of the world and can recognize sounds other than their mother tongue. After 9 months, this ability began to deteriorate. Therefore, the focus of ear grinding for babies under one year old lies in the accumulation of sound. And the broader the language style, the better. Therefore, if parents listen to English radio and talk shows, the baby will also listen to them, which is also a kind of accumulation and training of voice discrimination. At this stage, if the audio is extracted from children's cartoons, it is also a good material.
Many mothers will ask the question of how to listen, because the younger the baby has no feedback on what he has heard, and the mother is always worried that the baby will understand? How do I know if she understands? In fact, these are not necessary. Because we are in the process of children's mother tongue development, we don't tell them until they understand it, so English and mother tongue are the same. The mother tongue is not exported until the baby listens for a year or more. At the same time, the output of English will be better than that of mother tongue. This has been proved by countless China babies.
As for how long you listen to it every day, it is based on the relaxation and pleasure of adults. The baby must listen to something beautiful that can make him happy. If this feature is not met, there is no need to use any materials with early education function. So we hope not to listen to music and English programs for English enlightenment. It's good for mothers to choose their favorite picture books of children's songs and nursery rhymes, and listen, read and enjoy them with their babies. Fifteen minutes a day, or half an hour, will do. It won't take long at a time. Early enlightenment children can have a lot of time to listen and even get used to it. After that, English will become a part of their lives, so don't worry at all.
Ear grinding has always been a special concern of everyone, and my baby also needs it. So I set up Anne Flower English Broadcasting-at present, there are a lot of free ear grinding materials in Himalayan (www.ximalaya.com) and Apple mobile phone client podcasts, including the audio of Little Anne and some contents of "Grinding My English Ears 1-6" introduced by me. Sharpen My English Ear 1-4 contains 60 children's songs imported by American Platinum Award winners, 36 of which are accompanied by picture books. Grinding my English ears 5 and 6 are 160 rhythmic poems with unique style, short and easy imitation, and high click-through rate. At present, this English broadcast is the favorite of my family. Every day, I have to care about whether there is any new upload and find his favorite animation and song audio.
/kloc-with the development of cognitive ability, babies over 0/year-old begin to have more and more demand for characters and storylines. Therefore, in addition to children's songs and nursery rhymes, 2-year-old babies will like simple animations, such as Maisy (Mouse Bobo) and Little Pink Pig (Little Pink Pig), which are all juvenile animations with simple language and are very popular with babies. Babies over 3 years old begin to have cognitive needs for shape, color and size. At this time, Mickey Mouse Club will become the new favorite of children. In addition, Dora (Dora the Explorer) is also a favorite image of children. 4-year-old babies generally like the theme of kindergarten life, but Caillou, the little bald head, his family and kindergarten children's stories make many babies fondle admiringly. Animals are generally the baby's great love, and often have the characteristics of children of different ages. Therefore, Clifford and the curious big red dog George fascinate many children. After the age of 5, many babies began to become interested in natural science. The magic school bus that is popular all over the world may occupy children's English time for a long time.
The characteristic of these audio and video resources is that they can walk into children's hearts. Once children like the characters and plots, even if they don't know English, it won't affect them. After reading it, extract the audio in time for children to listen repeatedly, which will form a situational correspondence between repeated voices and pictures. Practice has proved that it is very important to make good use of animation and audio in the early stage of enlightenment for the smooth introduction of English. In particular, the practice of extracting audio greatly reduces children's screen time and enhances children's independent imagination and language transfer ability when encountering similar scenes. It is common for many children to listen to a movie repeatedly, repeat it in large paragraphs, or encounter the natural output of similar scenes in their lives. These practices not only improve the ability to distinguish sounds, but also improve listening, which is helpful to help children form implicit grammatical memory ability similar to their mother tongue. According to foreign research, this ability will gradually weaken after the age of 7. Let children input natural and complete phonetic materials as soon as possible, so as to get rid of the dilemma of dumb English and English translation.