What is the most effective way to use natural spelling?

In short, there are two ways to use it.

One is pure American usage. Read by natural spelling.

In this way, we must first understand the mechanism of foreign children using this method.

First of all, the concept of sound group. There are also those called word groups and phonograms, and there is no unified translation.

Divide the words into 70 sound groups, with more than 80. There is no essential difference between complexity and simplicity.

For example, 26 letters are single-word vowel groups, ou, au, eu, ea, ee and so on. They are all two-letter sound groups, and there are igh, enough and so on. It's a multi-letter sound group.

Then, determine the pronunciation rules of the sound group. For example, the pronunciation of a is a, ei, er, alas and so on.

Then, that is to say, some collocation rules, such as when to pronounce the long sound ei and when to pronounce the short sound alas. American spelling, especially the spelling rules taught to children, is very simple, so people feel a lot of exceptions. However, the spelling rules taught by some institutions in China are extremely complicated, with few exceptions.

Why?

The reason is that the users of learning objectives and methods are different. The methods of domestic institutions will be discussed later. Continue to talk about foreign teaching methods.

Foreign children have accumulated a large number of oral and listening vocabulary, so they can use trial and error when spelling words.

For example, the word "family" may be pronounced as "Fermi" or "Fat Rice".

A foreign child may have stored a fat rice in his head in advance. He can try to read both sounds without knowing the collocation rules, and then eliminate the rice that is not stored in his head by elimination. In this way, children not only know the meaning of words, but also learn the pronunciation of words. There are few homophones in foreign languages, and even if there are, children can infer them from the context.

In fact, we also have this kind of reasoning ability. For example, if you read traditional Chinese characters, you may not know a word, and the meaning of the article can basically be understood together, because it is easy to judge what the corresponding simplification is by context inference. In addition, listening to dialects, some dialects can be understood as long as they are not too outrageous.

It is for this reason that foreign natural spelling teaching does not need to teach too many rules, on the one hand, it does not need to let children remember too many rules.

What should domestic children do if they use this method?

Is to let yourself accumulate a lot of listening and speaking vocabulary, but also have the ability to try to spell.

However, this idea is sometimes unreasonable. The accumulation of vocabulary in listening and speaking is quite difficult, which is basically equivalent to mastering a foreign language. As ordinary learners, from the semantic level, they often need written words to practice listening and speaking. So you use this pure American natural spelling, that is, learn from the East and learn to walk in Handan.

Of course, it is not excluded that some children grow up in China, but their parents have a high level and can cultivate their listening and speaking ability close to that of foreign children. So it is logical to use this purely American method.

For ordinary children, it is still necessary to recite words honestly (in writing) and read them through word recognition.

A friend has analyzed that China children have a unique advantage in memorizing words, that is, they can break a long word into several syllables, which is very efficient.

When it comes to memorizing words, we can just say the second usage of natural spelling. This second usage is to help remember words.

This is an application of natural spelling in pure Chinese. Its function is not to help reading, but to help remembering words. Of course, words can be read after learning, but the direct goal is to recite words.

What are the benefits of natural spelling to help recite words? There are two.

First, it can help to judge the pronunciation of words. Therefore, the Chinese natural spelling method summarizes extremely detailed rules. Actually, there is no need to be too detailed. After all, today's electronic dictionaries are very convenient, and they are pronounced by real people. If you encounter a difficult word, look it up. But if the rules can be written down,

And can skillfully use it, which is not bad from the perspective of art, but don't force it if you can't remember it.

Secondly, it can help to remember the spelling of words. If you use phonetic symbols, the word light is pronounced Wright, which is sometimes misspelled. If you know that "ight" is often pronounced as "ait", then the spelling of this word is clear at a glance.

Therefore, from these two perspectives, natural spelling is more useful after the transformation of Chinese style.

As you can see, the idea of this method is a bit like a substitute for phonetic symbols. Even with this method, there is no need for phonetic symbols. Of course, it will play this role to some extent, but there is no need to emphasize this role.

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