English Enlightenment: How should parents cultivate their children's English listening ability?

Children's English enlightenment, first ask about listening, privately think that the problem is to the point.

Any deep language learner should understand this: listening ability is the most powerful ability and the most difficult to acquire. This is the basis of language learning and learning a language well.

Listening ability is like the internal strength of a martial arts master, which ultimately determines what level your language level can reach.

Therefore, listening is very, very important! ! !

Realizing this, English learning is just touching the door.

Why is it important to listen?

Many people don't realize this. On the one hand, they don't study English very hard. On the other hand, there is a deep-rooted misunderstanding about listening. What is listening? Have you really thought about it?

Academically, actually listening = listening+understanding+output. I heard there was no separation.

To put it pedantically, English listening is a comprehensive listening ability: the ability to obtain information, the ability to respond correctly to instructions, and the ability to share attitudes and opinions.

What? ! What the hell?

Vernacular speaking: Listening means being able to understand the meaning of the words you hear, and then being able to connect the words with the real meaning in some way.

When your children hear a story, good listening skills can make them understand it, remember it, talk about it, and even retell the story in their own language.

Excellent listening ability, on the one hand, can lay a solid foundation for language learning, on the other hand, it can also make it easier for children to grow into an excellent communicator.

This is an important skill developed at an early stage. Just like muscles, they need regular exercise to become stronger.

How to do listening exercises?

1. Focus.

When communicating with children in English, encourage them to look at you while listening. Children's attention is short, and this short attention is very important. Grasping children's attention will get twice the result with half the effort.

But don't try to force children to concentrate, it's against their nature. On the contrary, it will arouse children's rebellious psychology.

2. Make reading an interactive activity.

When reading aloud, stop before turning the page and ask, "What do you think will happen next?" Let the children explain their answers and see how they listen. If they don't listen carefully, don't criticize directly, but let them form an interesting habit and predict what will happen next.

3. Play listening games.

Games like Simon's can help children build their listening comprehension skills and are very interesting. They are all good parent-child interactive games.

Simon said it was a traditional English children's game. Usually three or more people attend (mostly children). One of them plays Simon. Others must react differently to the order announced by the person who acts as "Simon" according to the situation.

If the person who acts as "Simon" announces an order with "Simon says", others must follow suit. The person who plays "Simon" says, "Simon says jump". Others must jump up at once; And if the person who acts as "Simon" doesn't say "Simon says" but directly announces the order, for example, the person who acts as "Simon" says "jump". Then other people are not allowed to move. If there is movement, the person who does it will be eliminated.

4. Story Solitaire.

This is also a very interesting game that the whole family can play together. A person starts (for example, "Once upon a time, there was a bear living in a cave") and then forms a circle. Everyone contributed a sentence to this story. We played with our little nephew, and at last everyone laughed, because it was ridiculous.

5. Emphasize common voice signals.

By emphasizing the common phonetic signals in conversation, including "now", "next" and "last". When talking about these signals, pause, increase the volume, increase body movements, etc. To attract children's attention and help them build language logic.

6. Help children build their own vocabulary.

Children may fall into a word they don't understand and eventually miss the rest. Usually you can use books, games, flashcards, charts and other ways to build your child's vocabulary. Don't forget to read books together regularly.

Flashcards are similar to literacy cards.

Mainly to play with the baby.

7. Be a good listener.

Avoid interrupting children when they are talking. Tell them that you are listening to them. Give positive responses, such as nodding, smiling, saying supportive words, following up on questions or explaining their expressed interests.

There used to be a joke: a boy called his girlfriend and didn't know he was chatting on automatic voice all noon. Automatic voice is just a random reply, right? Really? Children are sometimes like men, hahaha.

8. Please remember that most children have short attention spans.

If the information is too long for children to understand, then don't expect children to have a focused performance.

In short, whatever your method is, the most important thing is to be relaxed and interesting, relaxed and interesting, relaxed and interesting. Say the important things three times!

Teaching children to learn a second foreign language before school is mainly to cultivate a habit and interest, not to stifle children's interest!