Why do you listen to ESL Pod and English Pod?

The author draws lessons from the famous linguist Krashen's second language acquisition theory and summarizes these points in English learning.

1, listening input

We should start with listening, and listen to English with various accents. People in native-speaking countries and non-native-speaking countries should listen to English as much as possible, because adults have difficulty in listening, and only by listening to nonstandard sounds can they get through and improve their pronunciation.

2. Narrow input and narrow input

You should only listen to certain types of materials for a certain period of time. For example, if you like news, just listen to it for a few months. If you like listening to audio books, just listen to them. After listening to them, you should contact other materials.

3, intelligibility+1 listening input, that is, i+ 1, I represent your current level.

Listening must be a little more difficult at the level of your own understanding, and then gradually transition. At first, it was normal speech speed, which was called invalid input, just like noise (adults and children don't care)

4. Emotional mechanism

Learning materials should be interesting, interesting, and learners will always feel happy and rewarding in the learning process, and their frustration will not be too heavy.

5. Image theory

From the beginning, we should attach importance to the relationship between image and language, so that hearing a foreign language can directly reflect the image, rather than hearing a foreign language reflect Chinese and then reflect the image.

6. Input-output theory

Input must be taken seriously! Only when the input is sufficient, the output of oral and writing will be smooth and correct. Even many people specialize in input and never practice output, but they are unimpeded after going abroad.

7. I heard that I was ahead.

First of all, it takes about 1000 hours of effective input, so that after the problem of listening and speaking is completely solved, about 5,000 words accumulated in the early stage are active vocabulary, and then a large number of original books are contacted to increase vocabulary. Then practice writing, solve English problems thoroughly, and learn English as well as riding a bike, instead of always learning English in pain.

Let's take a look at several characteristics of English Pod.

1, almost every conversation has an accent. From the first issue, the waiters in that Italian restaurant had a strong Italian accent, and later there were American accents, British accents, Indian and Mexican accents and so on. Meet!

2, all programs are broadcast in the form of talk shows, the host carefully explained, and broadcast English in a fixed form, in line with!

3, material difficulty classification, from basic, intermediate, advanced, and then advanced, so that learners slowly transition, not only the speed of speech is more difficult, but also advanced content is taught in the form of lecture universities, which is more difficult than daily conversation vocabulary, in line with!

4, all the content is very funny, a bit of a cold joke! The host's explanation is vivid, and the message in official website will be carefully answered by the host. Meet!

Although it is audio, you can't put pictures directly, but the sound effect is very good. This scene is conducive to the imagination of learners. When explaining some new words, sound effects will be released to let people know what it looks like. The feeling of the picture and scene is vivid through sound effects. The work team of EP should praise it! Meet!

6, input and output, needless to say. Meet!

7. Well, I took the script of EP300 and made the word frequency statistics. All the new words, about 6000, are enough to express all aspects of life, whether it is daily conversation or formal speech. So many words are enough. After listening to 300 issues and solving the listening problem, I still suggest you read more newspapers, starting with The Wall Street Journal (online homepage in English and Chinese, free of charge) and new york Times electronic edition (free of charge). In dealing with listening and speaking and accumulating active vocabulary, EP wins!

The two most important learning materials are i+ 1 principle and emotional mechanism. EP is mainly broadcast in a tone close to normal speech speed, and sometimes the host is humorous. It is highly recommended that the slow speed of VOA is too simple, and the constant speed of VOA is too ugly. It is recommended to play it as a popular song in MP3. Listen carefully for a while, put it down as soon as you have time and listen more.

As for children's shoes that think EP is a little fast, then ESL is the best for you. I don't need to prove that ESL symbol doesn't conform to Krashen's second language acquisition theory, because it has been personally recognized by Krashen, and the official certification is awesome! Krashen was asked in an interview with reporters, what kind of theory are you talking about, and is there any material that meets your requirements? Krashen replied, yes! That's the most famous ESL podcast! To tell the truth, the old man is not dead yet. I am surprised at everyone who is not dead in my textbook.

According to the principle of 200-hour intensive listening, the listening speed is 50 hours slow and the average speed is about 150. After listening to the ESL of 150 and the Englishpod of 900, you will pass the test completely. The premise is effective input, that is, concentrate on listening and reading. However, EP did not debut in 900 issues, so everyone still bought genuine products and supported the EP team to make persistent efforts.

By the way, all materials for learning English can be discarded. After listening to several hundred issues of EP, I have memorized the words and syntax, and it is difficult to speak English fluently.

For such scientific material, it's almost like burning a harp and cooking a crane while listening and imitating. You must make up your mind to learn this material systematically many times in one year, and then you can master English completely after reading and memorizing words for half a year.

As for reading, I suggest listening to young adults' audio books first, and combining text reading to accumulate words. Harry Potter on VC is a good choice. For those comrades who are obsessed with listening to English pronunciation, please listen to the Percy Jackson series, a set of five books. I uploaded the Sina network disk, and will send the address here when I have time. If the book is available, I can afford to subscribe to the original, but I can't afford to go to Taobao. You know, it's estimated to be 60 yuan at most.

With the transition of a set of elegant novels, it is much easier to read newspapers and periodicals. After reading a set of YA, the vocabulary will be around 7000 to 8000. After reading newspapers and periodicals for four months, the vocabulary can be expanded to more than 1000. If you insist on reading, that's enough.