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14年5月在「小學雜談」一篇文章,原文已封。 我冇詳細看過,答那位唔知係咪聰明爸,有興趣就睇下。
一網友問:-
請問你怎樣培養他們的英文? 謝謝你。
FreemanM 答:-
There is no quick fix in nurturing kids' English literacy. You have to adopt a systematic and structural approach to help kids establishing their interest and habit in English and then develop their capability step by step.
The most important point is to choose the correct and effective method/approach but not those piecemeal advices.
Note that there are many different approaches or methods suggested by many parents here. However, I found that most of them are less effective and some of them are even useless. If you follow those inappropriate ones, you will just waste your effort that your kids can hardly achieve a real high standard or your kids may even miss the golden age of English development.
Some people say that different methods may have their pros & cons that suit different kids with different temperament and each kid is unique & different and therefore there is no universal method applicable for all kids. However, my in-depth observation and extensive experience conclude that such statement is not entirely true. There is no doubt that different methods may have their pros & cons just because that those methods are not the appropriate one or the right one. Instead, there really exists a general method/approach in developing kids' language that all those good international schools in HK adopt more or less in a similar way. Such method/approach suits all kinds of normal kids (except for those have learning difficulties). Of course the pace or progress will be different for kids with different calibre while the ultimate standard or level achieved will also be varied, subject to the actual effort made as well as the kid's inborn intelligent. Moreover, if a kid is nurtured by carefully following such universal method/approach, the result will be much better than any other sub-standard methods/approaches. However, significant results can be observed only if you can implement the method/approach consistently and persistently.
In general, the process of English learning should be in this order: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing.
Good listening and speaking up to native level can be easily developed when a kid has daily immersion into a total English environment for a few hours. However, it still cannot guarantee the kid can build up a high standard of reading and writing.
For English literacy building, reading is the most fundamental and essential element which cannot be despised. Without a solid foundation and substantial reading, no one can develop good writing.
There are a few tips in helping children to build up good English reading:
- Before starting to read words, learn phonics first.
- After mastering basic phonics, proceed to 2 to 3 years of daily guided-reading practice using carefully graded fiction and non-fiction books.
- Proceed to start daily self-reading of chapter books after around half year of guided-reading.
- Once started, the self-reading practice will be life-long, covering a wide range of both fictions and non-fictions and then further extending to various materials and articles.
- Intensive reading usually starts at upper primary under the guidance of an English teacher to analyse some selected masterpieces of different virtues.
For writing,I have already shared some tips in my blog.
I am not going to share details of the tactics, techniques and rationale behind of how parents can implement a systematic and structural approach in reading and writing practice for their kids at home as it is rather controversial. However, I can point out something that we shouldn't do - the Don't Do List.
Don't Do List:
- Don't communicate with your kid in English if you are not a native English speaker.
- Don't force your kid to recognise words before learning phonics.
- Don't force your kid to do spelling before your kid can read aloud at guided-reading.
- Don't force your kid to do writing before spelling.
- Don't waste time to arrange your kid to learn phonetics before your kid can master English proficiently (i.e. not recommended in primary and junior secondary).
- Don't force your kid to do "extra" grammar exercises (i.e. only do what the English teacher requests at school).
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