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Can children learn English when they watch cartoons? Let's see what American experts say

according to many parents' reactions, some children are now resistant to English, and they are unwilling to say in front of everyone that there is no such voice environment for children to practice. I think there are a lot of children who should be in this situation. In fact, at home, it can also create a good language environment for children. This important method is to use the original English books efficiently for English Enlightenment.

How to choose English books for children?

1、 You may overestimate animation

There are many parents at home to play the original cartoon for their children. They can learn English while playing. Experts believe that animation is more entertaining than learning. Cartoon is not a good resource for children's English Enlightenment. It doesn't need to spend too much time for children to watch it, so they think children's English will be good.

Why? The scene changes quickly in the cartoon. They are not made for children to learn the language. The probability of repetition of words and sentences is very low. It is important to know that children can only recognize sentences and words with high repetition frequency for many times to generate understanding and output. This kind of study is meaningful. And animation is more of an entertainment, for children's English Enlightenment, do not give high hopes.

2、 Using graphic dictionary to eliminate interference

I especially recommend those graphic dictionaries and children's dictionaries specially designed for children in Britain and America. This kind of dictionary is very useful and helps children to accumulate vocabulary well.

Children learn in the way of image thinking, and they feel the most when they see pictures. Don't worry about the difficulty. There are also very simple dictionaries of pictures and texts in foreign countries. There are only pictures and words in them. There is no explanation. If the child is a little older, there will be an explanation for the integration of graphics and text. If you type a little more, there will be fewer pictures and more words. Such dictionaries are often printed in full color on thin copper sheet paper. If you just turn them over, you can enjoy them, and they are easy to buy.

3、 Grading reading should be first

Many parents may not know that picture books are not the same as graded reading. As for picture book, its use scene is that the mother tells the story to the child, so the language used is not strictly limited. In other words, if the child doesn't understand, the mother can explain it in her native language. As a foreign language learner, our children have too many low-frequency words, which is a disturbance. Therefore, it is suggested that children should choose graded reading when they are just starting.

In short, according to children's cognitive level, in order to enable children to gradually improve their reading comprehension from easy to difficult, the length of graded reading, the difficulty of content, the difficulty of vocabulary and the complexity of sentence structure are strictly limited.

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For example, if you take an initial level of grading reading, there are less than 20 words in a thin small book, the first sentence is I can run, the second sentence is I can read, the third sentence is I can jump. The six sentences in this book are the same sentence structure, each sentence replaces a word. For children, it is easy to understand, which is easy to produce a sense of learning achievement.

The earlier the graded reading starts, the more detailed it is. It can provide us a lot of convenience. Children's foreign language foundation will be more solid.