Parents report that their children don't understand English. What's going on?

Answer 1

There could be many reasons why children did not understand English:
1. ** Lacking practice **: This was the most common reason why children did not understand English. If you spend too little time listening to English and lack enough listening practice, it will be difficult to improve your listening ability.
2. ** Low self-confidence **: Lacking confidence in your English ability may cause nervousness during listening and affect your understanding of English content.
3. ** Inappropriate learning method **: Not mastering effective English learning methods, such as not establishing a sense of English, or relying too much on Chinese translation during the learning process, may lead to not understanding English.

For children who do not understand English, the following measures can be taken to help children improve their English listening ability:
1. ** Create an English learning environment **: Create an English learning environment. By watching English movies, listening to English songs, reading English storybooks, etc., the children can cultivate their interest in English. Family members can also communicate in English more often, so that the children can get used to hearing English and gradually improve their listening skills.
2. [Focus on Listening Training: Carrying out systematic listening training is one of the most effective ways to improve your listening ability.] You can choose some English listening materials specifically for children and let the children practice listening for a certain amount of time every day. These resources cover different difficulties and topics, which will help the children gradually improve their listening skills.
3. ** Create a relaxed and enjoyable learning experience **: Children's attitude and emotions towards learning directly affect their learning results. In the process of helping children improve their English listening, they should focus on creating a positive, relaxed and enjoyable learning experience. Through games, fun activities, or interesting English exercises, children's interest in learning can be stimulated so that they can improve their listening skills in a relaxed and happy atmosphere.
4. ** A variety of learning resources **: In addition to books and applications, you can also use the rich resources on the Internet to help children improve their English listening skills.
5. ** Tailored training **: If the child listens to English more and cultivates a certain sense of language, then there will be some progress in listening. For children over the age of 8 who have already ingrained their mother tongue thinking, they may need to deliberately practice, such as investing special time (such as 30 minutes) every day to break through their listening skills in a short period of time (8 months to a year). The specific steps could be as follows:
- Choose a 3 to 5 minute recording and prepare the text.
- Don't read the text, play the listening part one to three times, listen quietly, maintain a good attitude, and your parents will guide you more.
- Look at the text and play it again. As you listen, mark and highlight the words and phrases that you didn't hear.
- He looked at the text and used a tool to find the pronunciation and meaning of the words he did not understand one by one. Then, he read the entire text once.
- Without looking at the text, play the audio again. Listen quietly and imagine the story described in the audio.
- Choose a paragraph or sentence that you like, and do some practice such as copying good sentences, translating them into Chinese or reciting them.
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