How to improve children’s spoken English

Most children have very poor oral English skills, and their English is mute and is only used as a test tool. So let’s take a look at this article on how to improve children’s spoken English. You will definitely gain something.

1. Problems

1. Lack of self-confidence

Most children cannot read English aloud because they are afraid that their speech is not standard, does not sound good, and is afraid of others. Joke, lack of confidence. Some children are naturally introverted, which aggravates the problem and dare not speak English. Over time, they develop mute English.

2. Insufficient environment

Except for self-study in English classes, almost no one can speak English either in school or in social life, and there is a lack of time and environment to practice English. In addition, children's lack of attention to spoken English and the prevalence of uselessness have exacerbated this problem.

2. Strategy

1. Interest

No matter what course you are studying, you must first be interested. Without interest, you will not learn well. Therefore, it is very important to create an environment for speaking English and stimulate interest in expression.

Teachers can enrich classroom content through various activities, constantly provide children with opportunities to express themselves, constantly stimulate children's interest in oral expression, and cultivate their interest in oral expression.

2. Form oral expression interest groups

Organize various interest groups and use various activities and spare time to communicate between groups. After continuous practice, your English speaking level will be greatly improved.

3. Diversification of teaching

With the advancement of the times, the teaching model must also change. The previous lecture-based question-and-answer model has become outdated and cannot adapt to new teaching requirements. Therefore, teaching methods must be reformed to give full play to children's subjectivity, allowing children to speak more and teachers to speak less.

Teachers can adapt the texts into stories, novels and other media that children like, so that they can speak English and so on. Various useful activities can also be carried out according to the child's actual situation to improve the child's oral expression ability.

4. Diversified evaluation methods

Diversified motivational evaluation can also promote the improvement of oral expression ability. However, the evaluation cannot be static. It can be conducted by teachers as the main evaluation, or by children as supplementary evaluations, or by mutual evaluation among children, and timely and different motivational evaluations can be given according to different activities. High-quality comments can also improve students' speaking confidence and improve their English speaking ability.