text | Ningma Wuyu
Parents often ask me if I don’t know if I should translate it when reading English picture books for my children. If you translate, you are afraid that your child will develop Chinese thinking and will not be able to learn pure English. If you don't translate, the child seems to be unable to understand it.
When I first started to teach my children English, I also struggled with this problem. I was cautious and at a loss every day. Sometimes, children listen with relish, and sometimes, they are very repulsive and their English learning status is extremely unstable. I once thought that my child didn’t like to learn English and was a little anxious.
Later, I saw the theory of language educator caratshen , slowly let go of it, and treated the translation in a very relaxed state, and the child became very interested in learning English.
Carrashen proposed the language input hypothesis. He believed that: the key to language acquisition is sufficient comprehensible input, and incomprehensible input is meaningless to the learner. The more interesting and relevant the language material entered, the easier it is for learners to learn language without realizing it.
There is no English environment around the child. There was almost no English input before. Suddenly, I read a lot of English to the child. The child must have no feeling at all when he listened to it, just like northerners cannot understand Cantonese.
So, let children understand what English is reading. Only by accumulating less and becoming more, can they slowly understand the meaning of English expression and gradually apply it.
Of course, translating word by word will allow children to enter the old path of dumb English. The best way is to explain in a way that children can understand, so that children can feel interesting and learn English without realizing it.
I was reading a set of "Rainbow Candy Children's English Enlightenment Picture Book" with Erbao. I found that the following three methods are explained, which is particularly easy for children to accept, so I will share it with you.
Tell children a complete story
When we are not very familiar with a book, let’s first understand it as a whole. You might as well treat it as a Chinese picture book and explain it from beginning to end.
You can first look at the subsequent translation, and then use your own words to describe the content of each page. Don’t copy it intact, just like telling a story, relax, it will be more vivid and your children like it more.
can also look at the pictures and see with your children what happened. Children are sensitive to pictures and see more content than text descriptions. It not only exercises children's ability to organize languages, but also deepens their understanding of picture books.
Erbao likes to tell these stories very much. After forming a habit, if he only reads it, he thinks it is incomplete and insists on telling it himself before he can finish reading a book.
Use actions to let children experience
For many nouns, it is easy to correspond to Chinese and English, and children can easily understand it. However, for vocabulary such as verbs, only verbs are explained. Children will feel that understanding is difficult.
can act directly to let the child understand a word or sentence.
For example, here's a hug for you, let the child come over and hug the mother, and explain that this action is what this sentence wants to express in English.
For example, Tom looks behind the door, let the child stand by the door and look behind the door.
can also play roles with children and interpret the storylines in picture books.
For example, if we ask the child "Would you like some juice" and ask the child to answer "Yes, please!" Repeat the same sentence or the same type of sentence, and the child will know how to deal with sentences like this.
Use pictures to interact with children
to let children form English thinking. When seeing something, you don’t need to change it in your brain, and you can speak English directly. Then let the children correspond to the pictures and English.
The easiest way is to point to the picture when we read English so that the child can understand it. As children's vocabulary increases, children can participate in interactions and play various tricks. Children's sense of accomplishment becomes stronger and stronger, and their interest in learning English becomes higher and higher.
For example, in "My Pet", we read English, "Can you see my pet?" Let the child find the hidden pet in the picture. The child will keenly find it and blurt out the Chinese name. We immediately say the second sentence in English, "Yes, It is a dog". After repeated many times, the child is influenced by us and, with our encouragement, has the ability to speak English.
For example, "Can you find my robot?", we read "My robot has two arms", we point to the robot's arm, and if the child already knows the representation of the number, he will say "four arms", so, this is not his robot. If the child doesn't know the numbers, we tell him that it is "four arms".
If you want to achieve this effect easily, you need to choose a picture book with strong picture and text correspondence, such as "Rainbow Candy Children's English Enlightenment Picture Book".
is divided into two levels: basic level and improvement level. Each level has 40 picture books, a total of 80 picture books. Each book is very distinctive and you can play various games with your children as you like.
pictures correspond very well to English. You can use the picture to explain it by just looking for a sentence in English. Pictures are richer than text content. If you have the ability, you can add more English words to your children so that they can learn more.
If you can't understand English, don't be afraid, there is a reference translation later. You don’t have to be afraid of not knowing words, and you have explanations for keywords. Therefore, you can tell your child a complete story with confidence.
If you don’t know how to pronounce it in English, don’t worry, you can scan the code to get the audio. The audio can be played on the phone, downloaded to the computer, and then poured into a small speaker and listened repeatedly, which is also very convenient.
content is very rich. It not only allows children to learn English, but also performs cognitive enlightenment, general education, emotional intelligence cultivation, habit development, and transition from kindergarten to primary school , killing multiple goals at one stroke.
is very cleverly designed: each book is related to picture books, and when children are interested in a book, they can easily expand their interest range. Each book has learning goals and key sentence patterns, which guide us how to take care of our children to learn English better. Erbao and I have been reading this set of books for two months and read 5 books every day. His vocabulary has shown explosive growth and he is full of high enthusiasm for learning English.
If your child happens to be between 2 and 6 years old, choosing this set of "Rainbow Candy Children's English Enlightenment Picture Book" for English Enlightenment is very worthwhile. After all, the imported graded reading materials on the market will cost more than 1,000 yuan, and this set costs less than 80 yuan.
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