How to have a good English class in kindergarten

Introduction: English teaching in kindergartens In the era of globalization and informationization of the world economy, English education in China has been promoted from junior high school to primary school, and most cities have started English education from kindergarten. From the teaching practice, children's learning English does not increase the burden, and compared with those children who have never learned English, they are more lively, flexible and have a higher level of ability development. What about as the main body of teaching? How should teachers teach English well?

How to teach kindergarten English well 1 Set up a good English environment to provide a good stimulus carrier for children to learn language.

As we all know, language can only be acquired through long-term practice in a certain environment. Language learning is very difficult without specific situations. Therefore, our kindergarten pays attention to preparing a good English environment for children when teaching English.

(A) Kindergarten Day activities, teachers actively create a good English environment for children.

It is not enough for English teaching activities to be limited to a few English classes. Where should children learn English first if they want to learn it well? Listen. At the beginning, this requires teachers to communicate with children in everyday English as much as possible in all aspects of their daily lives, and put forward appropriate requirements to create a good English language environment for children.

In our kindergarten, every class has a teacher to do this topic. In view of the uneven English level of kindergarten teachers, the teaching and research team copied "Kindergarten Daily English 1000 Sentences" for each class, requiring teachers to organize daily English in the form of small notes where necessary. So that when the teacher needs it, these seemingly ordinary little notes are like? Timely rain? Similarly, it nourishes teachers and children.

(2) The creation of physical environment can exert a subtle influence on children's bilingual display.

The wall layout is the biggest and most striking picture in the kindergarten environment. It is like an advertisement, which condenses the content and purpose of education and directly stimulates young children. For example, in the lobby of the kindergarten, we arranged pictures of teachers and children greeting each other. Good morning! ? 、? Hello! ? Phrases; On the facade of the stairs, we posted the four seasons, December and week in Chinese and English; In the long corridor, is it arranged? Fruit train? 、? Zoo? 、? When I grow up, I want to be a picture and corresponding phrases; Above the sink, with? Please wash your hands. ? Short sentences of; Next to the water cooler, it says? Please line up. ? And there are pictures of children queuing for territorial waters. In short, wherever children are in frequent contact, we use pictures and words to express bilingualism. These pictures silently give children an English hint.

(C) rich cultural environment

Language skills such as listening and speaking are not the only goal of kindergarten English education. Understanding and feeling colorful foreign cultures is also an important goal of kindergarten English education. Our garden employs foreign teachers all the year round. Their unique skin color, height and posture enable children to understand the appearance characteristics of people of different races in the world. Their exaggerated facial expressions and rich and interesting body language make children feel the cheerful and funny personality characteristics of foreign friends. At Christmas, Halloween and Thanksgiving, teachers introduce the origin of festivals to children, hold parties and feel foreign customs. These interesting activities help children feel and understand foreign cultures and open the door for children to understand and go to the world.

Second, explore new and interesting teaching forms to stimulate children's interest in learning English.

Interest is the best teacher, interest is the starting point and motivation for children to carry out all activities, and it is the best teacher for children. The final effect of English education activities depends largely on whether children's interest in English is aroused.

(A) English teaching content is close to children's life, paving the way for the implementation of various teaching methods.

Life-oriented teaching content makes children's English learning without burden. Children's speech activities are closely related to their life activities and cognitive development. Therefore, we should choose the content that children are interested in and closely related to their lives as the content of children's English learning, such as the names, numbers, colors, family titles, social occupations and phrases and scenes that often appear in daily life or learning activities.

(B) The application of TPR in kindergarten English teaching.

Total body response (total body response). It was put forward by James Asher, a professor of psychology at San Jose University in California, in the 1960s. This method advocates linking language with behavior and teaching foreign languages through body movements.

In view of the characteristics of children aged 3-6 who love to move and imitate, TPR teaching method is favored by children in kindergarten English teaching. For example, when learning the appellation of family members, personalized actions deepen the children's learning impression.

For another example, when learning the names of small animals and some verbs, the English teaching of TPR total physical response is even more extreme. Like learning from rabbits? Rabbit? Children spontaneously started skipping rope? Rabbit? Action; Learn from tigers? Tiger? At that time, the interaction with teachers in class was rough and bare. Big tiger? Action,; Learn birds? Birds? What we see is a group of free men? Dancing? Our birds are flying; ? When learning some English verbs, let children learn English in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere according to the meaning expressed in English and the corresponding actions.

(C) to carry out appropriate regional activities, create a good game environment, and guide children to learn spontaneously.

Not all children's spoken English is acquired in formal activities, but some can be acquired naturally, and language learning activities can be carried out at any time in daily life. We make full use of the corner to decorate the English environment so that children can learn it naturally.

Such as: learned? Teddy? Katie. Puppy? Nicky. After the English names of several small animals, the headwear marked with the names is placed in the performance area, and children can perform at any time; Have you studied? Me? M (name)? After the sentence pattern, we arranged a TV set made of cardboard boxes in the performance area to guide the children to introduce themselves generously; Learn sentence patterns? What do you want? And the names of various foods, we will arrange children's favorite in regional activities? KFC? Dining room, let children practice sentence patterns and words in their favorite game situations. The content of corner activities is updated at any time according to the course content, which makes regional activities closer to children's lives and becomes one of children's favorite forms of English learning. (d) English nursery rhymes, treasures and songs are children's favorite forms of learning English.

The catchy English nursery rhymes, which run through all kinds of vocabulary and cooperate with the whole body movements, add some interest to children's English learning. Strong sense of rhythm? English digital treasure? , will further strengthen children's interest in learning English. The textbook used in our kindergarten is children's Hong En English, and there are children's songs and songs in every class. Children's songs and songs have corresponding actions, which can help children remember. Most of the melodies in the songs are familiar to children, such as Two Tigers, Happy Birthday and so on. These songs have become children's favorites. Every time after dinner or when children are playing with toys, children will unconsciously hum these songs. Then, under the leadership of these children, they form a collective chorus.

(D) Organizing children to play rich English games can help children learn English.

Games are children's favorite activities. According to this feature, English teaching should be integrated into games to create a limited English environment for children. At the beginning, you can play some simple English games, such as sports games. Wolf, Wolf, what time is it, Wolf? Conversation can be converted into? Wolf, Wolf, Rabbit, what time is it? Conversation can be converted into? It? Is it one zero? Clock! ? Gradually transition to more complex games in the future.

English performance games are also children's favorite form. In the happy activities, children walk into the simulated story situation, feel the atmosphere naturally and easily, and practice dialogue and communication language, such as: tortoise and rabbit race, snow white, three butterflies, three pigs and other classic performance games. For example, the dialogue between the protagonist butterfly and flower in Three Butterflies is mostly repetitive language, which is easy for children to remember. The dialogue can only be changed by changing the color in the sentence pattern.

In short, through the exploration of kindergarten English teaching in recent years, we feel that kindergarten English education must create a prepared language environment through various channels, combine various teaching forms, mobilize children's enthusiasm for learning, and let children learn in interest. Nowadays, the English education for children in our kindergarten has made great progress, and the teaching methods and forms have changed from the original zero starting point to many effective methods. However, as our English education is still in the trial stage, it needs further research and practice. But we firmly believe that today's exploration will be the cornerstone of tomorrow's success.