How to help your child learn English
Forming / / December 19, 2019
Paul Burtovoy
Video designer Petersburg media channel "First Popular Television". He is fond of cinema, animation and everything connected with it.
Son is studying in an English language school for the second year. I recently found out that his knowledge in this area are simply awful. Problems were found even with the alphabet. We had to do something.
memorizing words method using double-sided cards in this situation for some reason did not work. Probably due to poor knowledge of the alphabet. About the different programs for the smartphone, I generally keep quiet: motivation to the study of language the child is not zero, but rather negative to these programs could interest him.
I had, relying on the experience of predecessors, to develop and break in his method. Well, personally supervise the learning process.
A bit of theory
Storing can be reduced to the cyclic process of three components:
- Perception.
- Reiteration.
- Testing.
When we want to remember the information the child, the task is complicated: it is not clear how well he did took, how many times repeated, and student testing leads to stress and negative emotions in the case of poor result.
Consider all three components of the process of memorization, and how they can be improved.
Perception
For qualitative perception, it is desirable to use as many types of memory: auditory, visual, motor. You can even add this kind of as verbal memory.
Reiteration
By repeating material as it may seem, an effective method was studied multiple entry words while their pronunciation.
This way, I read in the memoirs of a Soviet spy. He called this technique very effective for larger vocabulary.
Explain the effectiveness of the combination of multiple words at the same time rewriting their pronunciation can be the fact that the process involves all the possible types of memory.
Rewriting allows you to automate the process remembering, Depersonalize it. In addition, the written words have documented the fact of repetition and allow to find out what kind of material is remembered better, and what - is worse.
Testing
When checking the knowledge it would be good to hide from the child himself testing a fact, but leave the award in its successful completion. Ie hide whip, but strongly stuck out his stick.
If a knowledge confirmed, the cycle "perception - repetition - testing" is interrupted. If not - repeat. So there is an incentive to learn all the material faster.
In this case, the knowledge obtained and tested in batches in batches, and not "Sit down, now I check how you learned that you were asked today."
How does the method
Since the alphabet is not the son knew very well, we will start with it. I found on the internet the simplest recipe, like these:
First made by the son of a full pronunciation of each letter of the association with its writing: it will be very important in the future. After the alphabet shifted to the words. To do this, I have used and continue to use the usual student notebooks in line or sheets of a notebook. On the sidelines of Russian writing meaning of words (expressions) that are to be learned.
On the corresponding lines should write these words in English. Since each new word, I authorize the first time to rewrite it from a textbook. Then the son writes the word as many times as will fit on the line.
However, he not only wrote, but each time says the word out loud.
At the end of the sheet is inverted, and then surprise! On the sidelines of the same Russian words and their English counterparts need to fill in all the lines, but without looking in the textbook.
Three important points:
- I'm on a child do not yellI do not blame him for his mistakes.
- If he does not remember writing, then I say it letter by letter (that's where the handy good knowledge of the alphabet).
- If your child has written and said a word without prompting from the first time, then there is agreement between us that he does not repeat it throughout the line. In the future, the word of the lists is removed. It is believed that it has learned, and the cycle "perception - repetition - testing" was completed for him.
The process is repeated until all of the words will not be excluded from the original list. On the photo below about the fourth iteration.
In the same way we previously taught a son alphabet. I wrote in the margin in Russian "hey", "B", "C", "D", and so on, and the son was filling line English uppercase and lowercase letters.
Pros and cons of the method
The method has several strengths. Involved in virtually all types of memory: auditory, visual, verbal and motor. Education costs without stress, self-concept the student does not suffer.
Game rules are simple and honest. It can be said that the method works automatically and the result appears as if by itself. A clear demonstration of the dialectical principle of transformation of quantity into quality. The algorithm is applicable for repetition forgotten material and is easily scaled for different words volumes.
The method gives the student the objective criteria for achieving the goal. There are real incentives to quickly learn everything and go for a walk.
Disadvantages of this method of training is also obvious: you need a lot of paper and "overseer."
Spelling and pronunciation of the English names of days of the week the son learned that evening. The next day received a Verification of five, praise and surprise the teacher. And this is not the only success.
It was still interesting to see how forgettable material if it is not repeated. The first thing disappears ability to write without errors, then begins to suffer pronunciation, in the least forget the sound of the word. But here is the ability to recognize it in the text is stored for a long time.
I do not think that the method is perfect, but using the described memorizing mechanisms, we can always come up with something of their own.