Source: China Education Online
For the parents of the national chicken dolls, the chicken dolls should also be early, especially the English language pass, must start as soon as possible, whether it can be cleared does not know, anyway, early entry to seize the opportunity has become an iron law between chicken doll parents that does not need to be said.
Why? It’s actually quite simple.
The human brain has its temper. Its language sensitivity period is only a few years, if you can seize these critical periods, you can make English learning more effective.
So here’s the problem!
English enlightenment should be early, and everyone on Earth knows it. But why are there so many parents “charging extremely fiercely, chicken dolls are very hard”, online and offline courses have bought a lot, the baby’s daily life is stuffed with various courses and English picture books, but the effect is always not satisfactory, resulting in the old mother often falling into a “hard / confused / helpless” triple crit?
In the final analysis, the right way of enlightenment and the good tools of enlightenment have not been found.
The so-called “if you want to do something, you must first sharpen your tools”,
If you want to do a good job of English enlightenment, choose a useful enlightenment tool,
Very! Heavy! Want!
The following Ding Ding Mama is based on the educational IP that my family is using – Ding Li Yala English Enlightenment App, compared with several other common similar apps, let’s talk about the importance of a good English enlightenment app for chicken dolls, of course, you can also see it as a personal evaluation for reference.
01 Capturing the “sensitive period of children” is the key
It is generally believed that language has several language sensitive periods, such as 0-3 years old is the early perception period of language, children mainly have a strong sense of rhythm, rhythmic, repetitive word perception. Repetition is the key to success in this period;
3-5 years old into the “hearing and speaking enlightenment period”, children begin to listen to sound discrimination, and begin to understand sounds;
At the age of 6-7, the transition from “listening and speaking” to “reading and writing” is carried out in preparation for the beginning of comprehensive and systematic learning.
The closer to age 12, the less sensitive the brain is to new languages and learns relatively slowly.
Therefore, it is important to grasp these language sensitive periods for English learning.
When choosing an English reading course, you should also refer to this standard to see whether the course design, scene setting, word matching, etc. are in line with the child’s developmental stage.
The main reason I chose Dingli is that I chose the curriculum according to the characteristics of children’s language development at all stages. It is mainly aimed at the English enlightenment needs of children aged 0-8, and matches the two major content sections of the systematic course “Yaying American Language Class” and the Fun Development Course according to different age stages.
The grading of “Croaking American Language Lessons” is very clear, and according to each child’s age stage, you can choose different graded courses for learning. For example, the Lv0 curriculum for 2-3 years old focuses on early education and enlightenment, and allows children to learn some commonly used life words through scenario-based teaching, such as colorful fruits (bananas, apples, oranges, etc.), character relationships (parents, grandparents), etc., and everyday words are easy to get. This stage focuses on the input of the child, mainly to accumulate a large number of listening words.
The Lv1-Lv6 course for 3-6 years old is aimed at children in kindergarten, continuous listening material input, and the preparation of oral output, helping them smoothly enter the system English enlightenment.
The course is also professional enough! The course is in line with Cambridge Children’s English Standards, and the amount of words learned at Level 6 can reach the Cambridge Children’s English Level 1. Our babies without an English environment can also learn the language framework of Western dolls seamlessly and synchronously.
02 Interest is the best teacher for learning languages,
To grasp English learning, “interest” is the most important.
That’s a good job.
Its courses are mainly designed around the three learning forces of “interest, concentration, and achievement”, which promote concentration with interest, seek success with concentration, and stimulate interest with success, forming a complete closed loop of learning.
Each lesson lasts 10 minutes, which is exactly the time when the child’s attention is most concentrated. Basically, every day I get an iPad, the child sings and dances along with children’s songs, reads along with the animation, plays, and then does a few practice problems, and the 10-minute course is over. The child likes it, has fun, and the old mother naturally accompanies her.
Dingding’s favorite is still the bun family and their friends, the cute “little adult” steamed bun is cute, the eccentric sister is the protector of the younger brother, and the ubiquitous croak can conjure up small surprises at any time.
There are other images such as Fifi Fox and Willy Wolf that appear in the anime, with distinctive features, bright colors, cute and interesting images. Each little animation is like a fun adventure with good friends, very gripping and fun. This kind of immersive scene story is also the main factor that makes children like it and adults feel at ease.
03 With “Interactive
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Get through the language barrier with your child
Developmental psychology research shows that play is the main task of preschoolers and a bridge that can effectively grasp their points of interest.
In order to further stimulate children’s interest and enhance concentration, Dingli Yala designed a series of interactive game sessions. For example, through the teaching video of “real person + educational IP” and multi-dimensional intelligent interactive technology, children can move their fingers to “click, drag, write…”, open their mouths and sing aloud to “record”;
Through vivid images and simple plots, children can repeatedly strengthen their memories. The dialogue content is highly repetitive, close to daily life, used frequently, and the effect is remarkable.
Children can also have online conversations with AI teachers. In the world of chattering, the teacher is no longer a simple protagonist of the video, but a close friend who interacts with the child.
The design of learning and scoring is also part of its interactive design, stimulating children’s sense of achievement with learning, and feeding back interest with a sense of achievement.
It can be said that Chattera has done the “interaction” to the extreme, making good use of this key that is “most suitable for stimulating children’s interest”, and naturally guiding them to actively learn, explore and develop the treasures of language.
04 A good education should not be a luxury
Although I refuse to admit it, education does have a threshold. Due to geographical restrictions and many objective reasons, for many children, good educational resources can be encountered but not sought.
Studies have shown that the education gap between first- and second-tier cities and third- and fourth-tier cities is first manifested in English education. When students in third- and fourth-tier cities still can’t understand grammar, students in first- and second-tier cities are already watching original movies and even reading original English books; Most of the English teachers in first- and second-tier cities are foreign teachers, while the English teachers in third- and fourth-tier cities are mainly students who graduated from general English majors. Parents of children in third- and fourth-tier cities have a late awareness of their children’s English enlightenment, and often miss the best time to learn English enlightenment at the age of 0-8 by the time they realize it.
Especially due to the epidemic this year, many offline English education and training institutions cannot open classes normally, and English enlightenment education resources for 0-8 years old are in an emergency.
Online education solves these problems very well. With the mode of AI interactive teaching, as long as a mobile phone or an Ipad is connected to the network, no matter where you are, you can seamlessly access a large number of high-quality, cost-effective educational resources.
This model makes up for the lack of offline education, and more importantly, it breaks down geographical barriers and makes English education no longer an unattainable luxury. Children in third- and fourth-tier cities can also choose cost-effective high-quality English education resources.
The same is an online product, and the cost-effective advantage of Dingli Yala is more prominent. In addition to the more affordable cost, online courses such as Twitter will arrange high-frequency courses, making full use of the seven days a week, reviewing after learning, and consolidating knowledge points in time. There will be a process of grinding the ears every day, using repeated and high-frequency learning to strengthen the language effect, while one-on-one lessons tend to have 2 lessons a week, and the course schedule is less. In terms of cost performance, it can be regarded as a very conscientious one.
Xin Xin, co-founder of Dingli Yala, once said, “Education is the art of slowness.” Language education, in particular, is a cumulative discipline. And enlightenment education is a discipline about love. If “language pass” is a heavy ocean that needs to be traveled far away, then mothers use love to be the sail, education to be the rudder, and support the boat to the ideal for their children.
However, the waves are strong and the wind is strong, the sea is wide and the sky is high, so it is wiser to choose a more suitable, tougher and more scientific tool for crossing the sea.