I casually looked through the new concepts I had learned before, such as lesson 87. The article is a little simple for junior high school students, and words like abili are not commonly used. The word commit didn't appear in the second book of English until my sophomore year. Therefore, there are several problems in the new concept. First, simple articles are useless to junior high school students. Second, although the article is simple, there are some unusual words. Third, vocabulary is too difficult to cross. Words learned in college are in this book, and words learned in primary school are also in this book.
If you want to adopt the method of English self-study, instead of reading new concepts, it is better to take a foreign original book as an example and choose some fairy tales first. It's not too difficult at first, and it's best to have books that can understand 60-70%.
In grammar, I recently bought a Chinglish Guide, which is a good book, but I don't know if it is suitable for junior high school children.
Children can completely teach themselves new concept English. This is my child's experience after practice. However, the learning method remains to be discussed.
According to language learning theory, immersion learning is the best way, which requires creating a foreign language environment and atmosphere. For example, rich people send their children directly to international schools, where they teach in English and immerse themselves for a long time. If nothing else, no one can learn English well. Those who can't afford to go to an international school can also find English teachers in the society. Children will have good results if they work hard. If the child is disgusted, the money will be wasted.
I have been to some social training institutions and deeply feel that their money is simply not easy to earn. Is it worth teaching so little? It is because I feel that the cost performance is too poor that I have been reluctant to send my children. On the contrary, I took the time to do some research on English learning, and then found that parents can help their children learn English by themselves. Parents can create an English learning environment in their own homes.
Speaking of creating an English environment, this is a big project, but we can choose the simplest one, that is, listening more.
Listen more strategically, don't listen indiscriminately. For example, it is useless for a beginner to listen to BBC every day for a year. Listening materials should be suitable for his ability. Children are ok, and there are many interesting things. For junior high school children, they are old. Many children like things that he may not be interested in, but they also have advantages. They have strong autonomous learning ability. If they can persuade education to keep up, they are willing to try and work hard to get twice the result with half the effort. If you don't want to try, then parents need higher wisdom to persuade him to try to learn.
The material content of New Concept 12 is actually more suitable for junior high school students. It's not long or interesting to read. After reading and understanding the meaning of each article, start listening a lot, don't recite words and texts, just listen a lot, and watch it again as background music until you fully understand it, one hour a day, almost a month or so, and complete the new concept one. Then another month, complete the new concept 2. This is the learning method of a free new concept self-study group I participated in online.
When my child was 8 years old, I had a good time with the new concept. After that, the number of words with a sense of language has been greatly improved, and the first chapter of English has been heard more smoothly. Personally, I think this learning method of new concept is very efficient and reasonable, starting from listening, not from grammar words, which is convenient for self-study and greatly improves language sense listening.
Parents sometimes have a misunderstanding that their children have poor English and poor oral pronunciation, so they dare not take their children to study. In fact, our era is extremely rich, and all kinds of English resources are available. Parents really don't have to go into battle by themselves. As long as parents carefully observe their children and introduce appropriate resources at the right time, children can learn by themselves without necessarily knowing that they are learning. For example, watching cartoons, will children feel that they are forced to learn? Moreover, children's learning ability is really strong. You don't know until you experience it. At first, my English was definitely better than my son's, but I soon found that I couldn't understand it now, especially listening, and he could guess the meaning.
1, it is useless to make up lessons; 2. You can buy detailed explanations if you understand them, but you can't listen to children whose English is different from yours or ask the teacher. Parents should not be stubborn. 3. Stick to 15/20 minutes every day. From now on, I will stick to the end of the college entrance examination. The perseverance of parents is not the perseverance of children. Parents are requested not to fish for three days. Summer vacation can be divided into morning and evening (depending on the time) for one and a half hours a day; 4. Parents can help find the next word that Ciba doesn't understand, let the children listen to the pronunciation, and then see the meaning of this word. By the way, write five faces on the grade paper, and read while writing. You needn't record it in another book. I won't repeat the preface next time we meet. 5. After school starts, no matter how many other homework there are, you must spend 15/20 minutes (high school can add 20/30 minutes) to finish the homework assigned by the teacher after you finish English (this is very important, you must finish the task first). It's time to write, but don't call it writing. End today's task. 6. If you can't speak English, let your children ask the English teacher in time or you can make friends with teachers who are good at English. Don't let children ask questions without shame. Let him solve the English words in the textbook by himself. Parents can randomly select 5/ 10 words and let him write them silently. Parents who can't record themselves. Ask again later. 8. Look at the children's English papers and see what's wrong. Just buy the detailed explanation there and break it alone (that is, make unremitting efforts to break it). 9, don't belittle children, don't lose your temper. Children can't. Parents can use your spare time to study video teaching on the computer, for example, when he studies by himself at night. Sorry about the mistake. Thank you.
Learn new concept English with my son. My situation is similar to yours, and my knowledge of English is almost returned to my teacher. Now I fight with my son with my incomplete knowledge of English. My son began to learn English from grade three and grade one in primary school. After entering the third grade, he has increased from two classes a week to four English classes a week, and his learning content has obviously increased and his pressure has increased. In order to let my son learn more English knowledge, I checked in bookstores and online, and decided to use the new concept English, which I have learned for a long time, as my son's extracurricular learning materials.
This new concept English book is a classic English learning textbook. First of all, let's take a look at the learning methods on Baidu. There are both paid resources and free resources, both of which have their own advantages and disadvantages. The advantage of paid resources is that parents don't need English knowledge, and online school teachers have arrangements for their children's learning progress and learning content. Free resources require parents' knowledge of English. Because of his work, he usually studies his own training courses online, so his son tried to enroll in an online school to learn children's English in the summer vacation of his second grade. The teacher is still responsible for pre-class, after-class lectures and homework, but I think there is something missing in this way of learning. After grade three, I rolled up my sleeves and studied new concept English with my son one-on-one. New Concept English is the most basic book. I didn't buy a book for my son, so I found a free video online, let him listen to it more, then recite it according to my own memory, and finally dictate it. Children have a good memory, and simple English conversations with new concepts are easy to remember, but once they dictate, they can see the problem and can't write words and sentences. Practice again and again until you are proficient. By studying in this way, my son feels relaxed and his English scores have improved a lot.
You can teach yourself completely.
First, find a good learning video.
Now there are many teaching videos in this field on the Internet. The content of a class is very detailed, which I think is better than that of many offline teachers. Of course, the advantage of offline teachers is that they can ask questions interactively with students. Pay attention to the learning effect of children at any time. But good video teaching and explanation of knowledge points will be particularly detailed.
Second, pay attention to after-school work.
After-class review, homework exercises and other content can not be ignored. Because there is no supervision from classrooms and teachers in schools, children are prone to lax management and poor grasp of learning content.
This needs our parents and children to do it together. For example, check children's word recitation. Copy homework. Phonetic recitation of texts is the same as audio and so on.
Correcting exam exercises should be a headache. Here, I want to say that since I am a self-media producer of free public classes, I will explain after-school exercises in future courses. I will also add it to my content.
Third, set a small goal and organize the study plan.
Every child has different talents. In the process of learning, learning time, learning methods (listening to pronunciation, reading books, copying words),,, and many other contents. We need to establish a learning flow chart. Only in this way can we know what to do every day, and we won't feel free and relaxed in our studies.
In this process, parents should play the role of supervisors, assign homework to their children in time, check the learning effect and be examiners.
Conclusion:
I have read about you. The teacher who teaches children is very irresponsible and lazy. This kind of remedial class is not worth mentioning. Don't be superstitious about school, because in a school. There are also responsible teachers and irresponsible teachers.
Try to choose large-scale schools with unified management requirements for teachers.
Self-study is also good. Children and parents in Grade 5 and 6 can learn English well by video courses.
I'm Chongbin's brother. An English teacher who specializes in public English course (the first book of new concepts), welcome to my space to watch English teaching programs.
New Concept English is very popular with students, but there are different views on how to learn it. So, is New Concept English suitable for self-study? I will give you an analysis based on my actual teaching experience.
1. English gifted students are more suitable for self-learning new concept English. These students' English ability is already super strong. They study the original textbooks for a long time and have good study habits. They really don't need to waste time in class, because after all, the level of other students should be considered in class, and teachers dare not speak too fast to meet their learning needs. And if they are allowed to teach themselves, the progress can be mastered by themselves. Therefore, it is more suitable for these students to learn new concept English by themselves.
2. Senior students with a good foundation can also choose to learn the first book of New Concept English by themselves, and then start learning from the second book. Because the content of the first book is relatively simple for them, and there is no need to follow the class. However, it should be noted that I am talking about students with good foundation. If you are a senior student with poor foundation, it is still recommended to start learning from the first book or the first book lesson 73.
3. Most junior students don't recommend learning new concept English by themselves. Because I have come into contact with many students who taught themselves new concept English in the lower grades, I found that their actual mastery level is generally not high. Roughly speaking, if they teach themselves, they can only master about 70% of the content, and many things are half-baked, and their learning is not solid, which has laid a hidden danger for their future English learning. On the surface, they saved time and money, but in fact they lost more. So these students are not suitable for self-study of new concept English.
In short, parents and friends must start from their own situation and consider whether to teach new concept English by themselves. What is suitable is the best.
In the situation you described, we can understand that children may get greater achievements when they learn new concept English collectively, because teachers may have different incentive mechanisms in small groups.
At the same time, we know that the ultimate goal of English is communication. For children in grade six or earlier to learn new concept English, we don't need to improve the goal of the exam, mainly because we can recite the text and communicate with each other, which has already reached the goal.
If you think that children can learn new concept English at home or learn from some free teaching videos on the Internet, I don't think this method is desirable. The main children's self-control is too poor, and online teaching may not be able to adapt to sixth-grade children, because everyone knows that sixth-grade children learn. If English is taught by others, it is nothing more than learning from the past.
Let's take a look at the difficulty of free new concept English online. For adults, suitable for adult self-study. For children, it's really a bit too profound.
However, there are exceptions to everything. If your child has a good foundation in English, can have strong self-control and parents can cooperate, you can also teach yourself at home or let your child do it by himself. After all, it can save a lot of money
In short, if you have money, let your children take part in special counseling, and don't let them teach themselves, because their self-learning ability is basically formed from high school.
I wonder what other friends think?
Of course, it is no problem for parents to help their children learn by themselves, especially to accompany their children to learn, or even to show weakness moderately to stimulate their confidence, and the effect is better. But do you want to learn new concept English? In fact, according to the current academic point of view, new concept English is a relatively backward teaching method.
The teaching method represented by New Concept English can be attributed to the "listening and speaking" school that appeared in the United States in the 1930s. Led by the American government, this school organized extensive and solid theoretical research, applied the most advanced scientific research achievements of linguistics and psychology at that time, formed very detailed operational norms and procedures, and published a large number of supporting teaching materials, audio-visual materials and books for teachers and students. In the 1950s and 1960s, it completely occupied the leading position in foreign language teaching in the United States, and later developed the "Situational Teaching Method", a close relative of Britain.
The "most advanced" linguistic and psychological research results on which the "listening and speaking method" is based are exactly what we in China still regard as "* * * knowledge". From the linguistic point of view, this method describes the content structure of language in detail, compares the foreign language to be studied with the mother tongue in detail, and compiles teaching materials according to the language points appearing in the comparison, hoping to reduce or avoid students' mistakes through such strict language control, thus improving learning efficiency.
From the psychological point of view, this method advocates that language is a behavior habit, which can not be learned as knowledge, but to achieve proficiency through repeated external stimuli. In China, Pavlov's experiment of feeding dogs and making them drool is still regarded as the psychological basis of learning a foreign language. A lot of teaching, including the operation of many of our parents, is based on the theory of conditioned reflex, which encourages learners to make correct responses and immediately punishes wrong responses in the hope of eventually forming correct language habits. Learning a language requires repeated practice and even recitation, which is still believed and practiced by many people in China.
Taking New Concept English as an example, language contents including vocabulary and sentence patterns are strictly controlled in quantity, frequency of use and order of appearance, and learning methods also advocate repeated practice, which eventually becomes a habit. This is the fundamental reason why New Concept English has been enduring in China for many years, and even some book sellers directly regard it as a model textbook for reciting. Situational teaching method is the mainstream method of English teaching in contemporary China.
It should be clearly reminded that these practices that many of us take for granted in our consciousness, including the practice of repeatedly practicing language structure, correcting mistakes and eventually forming habits, withdrew from the core stage of foreign language teaching methods as early as the 1970s. In the United States, "listening and speaking method" has become a taboo in the field of second language teaching and is mentioned as a negative textbook. It is not that a great method was born to replace it, but that its extremely strong theoretical foundation of linguistics and psychology was destroyed.
The epoch-making point of view comes from Chomsky, a famous linguist and the first person in human humanities. He put forward in the late 1950s:
Special attention should be paid to the expression "creative behavior", which is more obvious in young children. It is easy to observe from the growth of our own children's mother tongue that children's language is obviously not "knowledge" or "habit" consolidated through study and practice. Children can speak sentences that they have never heard before, and their grammatical ability far exceeds input and learning from the environment. Parents correct their children's language mistakes at the semantic and conceptual levels, and hardly care about the right or wrong of their children's grammar. Obviously, children will not form correct "habits" because of frequent correction of mistakes.
In short, the understanding of the development of foreign language teaching methods today is that all teaching methods are overlapping, not isolated and mutually exclusive. For ordinary parents and even professional teaching staff, there is no need to care too much about how a certain method should be operated, but to comprehensively use various methods according to personal needs. Combining various methods and means to pursue the highest efficiency of foreign language acquisition is the ultimate state we want to pursue.
So, if parents want to choose appropriate ways to accompany their children to improve their English, I think they can read this book:
Wang Qing is a doctor of applied linguistics at UCLA. As a professional, it is appropriate to interpret the English learning problems of children in China. This book has a score of 8.5 on Douban, 9.9 on limited-time specials, and an electronic version on WeChat reading. I hope mom and dad can find it!
English teaching level varies from region to region. In some places, you may start learning English in the third grade of primary school, and in some places, it is enough to start at grade 1.
New concept English is not a compulsory course in school, so the first thing I want to know is, why did you choose to learn this textbook for your children? If you study casually with your classmates, do children mainly want to have a companion activity?
From the perspective of improving English, there are many different English teaching institutions, such as Hujiang English, KK English for community learning, and more offline institutions. It can be screened according to the actual situation of children and the economic conditions of families. The most important thing is to stimulate children's interest in learning!
Parents don't. If you can persist, there is actually the best way: let the children learn to teach you. Teaching is the best learning. Of course, whether parents can persist is crucial. We always urge our children to study. In fact, if we study together, we will find it is still very hard.
Come on!
Please pay attention to parents, there is nothing you can't learn, only you can't trust your children, and language is the way to tell them to learn, that is, if you dare to teach your children, they will dare to learn.