November 20, 2011
With the deepening levels of English learning English vocabulary is growing, more and more difficult to remember the word. One-sided emphasis on learning English so boring to remember back to words and texts, so that students have tired of the psychological and emotional. Based on this, I am inspired by Li Yang Crazy English, try to body language used in the practice of teaching English, and achieved some results.
also known as body language, body language, refers to the body through various movements, in order to replace the language in order to achieve the purpose of communication to express emotion. It takes many forms, content-rich, used properly and even better than the sound of language to express emotion.
First, the use of body language, enhanced affinity for English class.
1, the use of body language closer to the emotional distance between teachers and students. English classes, teachers often encounter children do not want to speak English. Such as teaching the word “expensive”, due to the difficulty of the word itself, not with the child self-confidence, I found a little mouth, but not sound children. So, I approached the child, pulling the child little hand, and the kids said “expensive, expensive, expensi-ve”, after the word three times and finished with a finger of students playing the game the stone scissors cloth. If the child is lost, the word will then read three times and then continue playing the game the stone scissors cloth, and so on. Some kids just totally lost and fear of strangers, this little body language so that students and teachers of the spiritual mind tightly close, let the children feel the kind of teachers, nearly flat and easy-going.
2, use body language to stimulate students interest in learning English. Students vivacity, love animals and loves to play, eager to learn. English as the first teachers of children, to fully mobilize the enthusiasm of the students, to attract the attention of students so that they can maintain long-term interest. Body language in English teaching has played such a role, so that students from “to me” to “I want to study,” inspire enthusiasm and motivation to learn. Such as in teaching the word “accountant”, due to a long syllable word alone with a teacher or recorder read, easy for students to confuse the public. More to the children of English are not interested in a lazy opportunities, experts say, is to enable students to repeat again and again to say the teacher or the content of learning will allow students to lose interest in learning, reducing the learning efficiency. In order to facilitate students memory for the correct word, the teacher teaching the word penetration of voice teaching, draw the word on the blackboard each syllable “a ccoun tant”. The students by syllable and slowly clap rhythmically while being read, on the basis of proficiency in students clap to speed up the speed. And on the basis of the skilled to the form of competition stimulate students interest in learning English, and often remember the words. Is so seemingly simple a few moves, so that children learning English easily enjoy the joy of success.
Second, the use of body language, to improve the effectiveness of the English classroom.
memory effect in the learning process depends on the attention and perceptual learning materials, materials processing on the deeper memory, memory, the better. The following example is my body language to attract the attention of students to learning materials and perception, and thus a deep memory of word processing.
1. The use of body language, breaking the word pronunciation difficulties. If the word “canteen”, the word stress on the second syllable [ti: n], students in Reading, easy to accent on the front of the syllable [], in order to avoid this error generation. When the syllable [] when teachers ask students to come up with the index finger pointing to the ground, and accent in reading some of [ti: n] when the index finger pointing to the air, from slow to fast repeatedly read the word, the students will naturally psychological competition with other children Write down the word competition speed. This process allows students to “play” approach to learning success to avoid pronunciation errors, both relaxed and happy. Another example is teaching the word “l-ibrary”, this word has a [l] pronunciation, two [r] pronunciation, students for the conversion of these two sounds more difficult. Therefore, teachers with “li [lai]” pronunciation, the students stretched out his right hand index finger, flat on the air, with the [lai] pronunciation circle in the air, said that the open mouth; let the index finger in the air to stop and curl fingertips, the changes that tongue pronunciation []. Students and it would be so simple and interesting body language to attract over, into the joy of learning.
2, the use of body language, to consolidate spelling. With the learning task increased, the increase in vocabulary, memory, word has become a great student, “weakness.” Over time, the students lost interest in natural English. So as a learning guide, we should not lose interest in how to guide students on the basis of English words can easily memorize it? As we all know, the word memory and word pronunciation rules should be linked, so that only simple and easy to remember words. However, the law is not familiar with the pronunciation of words by rote method alone is very boring. So how to change the abstract for teachers should be intuitive and perceptions of students, for students to experience from the abstract to the image of the thinking process, to promote knowledge internalization? In teaching the word “shift”, the teacher did not allow students to remember to use shift shift, but let students learn the way the teacher put in the mouth with the index finger that sh [], sh []. So that students in the process of reading and the characters “sh” sounds and images that linked to increased interest in learning words, to deepen the students sh hair [] sound impression, add the whole word in the memory of simple and easy more.
3, the use of body language, understand the meaning of the sentence. PEP four grade book Unit5 B Let lea-rn and Let do, this is the teaching objectives and requirements to listen to, say, to recognize and read four words “boots.s-lippers.sandals.sneakers” and can understand. ” Let do “instructions. Because Let do some still exist, such as “wiggle.splash.toes” and other unfamiliar words, if you want students to master the L-et learn some words outside the four Let do some further understanding of the meaning of the sentence, there are great difficulties. Therefore, the difficulty lies in understanding this lesson Let do part of the sentence meaning. Here, I use the body language you can easily solve the difficulty. Such as: teaching “Wiggle your toe-s”, the students while being read swing toes. Simple body language on the image to the meaning of the sentence that came out to solve the difficulty.
Third, the use of body language, an extension of English learning space.
educational psychology tells us: only music school. To enable students to consciously take the initiative to learn, French educator Rousseau that “the art of education is to teach students something like you.” Why are many children leave English class to forget the knowledge learned in class? One important reason is the knowledge that you did not let him teach interested students can not take the initiative and consciously to learn. Therefore, I use body language to inspire the students interest in learning English, so that the children have learned to deepen the impression, so that students consciously, motivated to learn English, learn English, extending its time and space. If the summary of “cat.canteen.cla-ss.carrot” in the “c” pronunciation, I did not follow the traditional way of teaching students to read several times over the word to deepen the “c” pronunciation rules impression. But to allow students to use the thumb and index finger image expressed “c” looks like, and then extend the thumb and index finger like a “k” look, while the students do the movements his mouth “c” “[k]. [ k]. [k] “, this approach to learning aroused the curiosity of students, but also image and easy to remember. Learning process in the future, the child can read on their own letter “c” fat [k] sound of the word.
Fourth, the principle of the use of body language
To make more effective use of body language, teachers should pay attention to the following principles:
1, Service the teaching goals
use of body language in order to achieve the teaching objectives, teaching goals from free to use body language to achieve the effect of lively classroom is not desirable. Such as in teaching the word “science”, there is one teacher to allow students to familiarize themselves with words, my hands quickly to indicate words while quickly read the word, so that students mistakenly word [] read as [ ais]. Therefore, teachers must have a clear purpose of each use of body language, designed around the teaching objectives and activities should be.
2, all of
teachers to use body language activities should be open to all students, as far as possible to allow more students to participate. For example, the distinction between the word “sneakers” and “slippers”, the teacher uses a “rapid response” that the corresponding word of the teaching activities, leading to two words are not familiar with the students from cheating, can not participate. Therefore, teachers should be simple and effective way, as much as possible so that all students can participate, do not allow some students to become the audience, which is particularly important for large classes.
3, diversity
activities for primary school English teaching students to meet the characteristics of language learning. Students of the new things have a strong curiosity and acceptance, when teachers in the use of body language to design forms, fun activities to stimulate the enthusiasm of students to participate in activities. Such as: to make teaching “quiet move” combination, to stimulate enthusiasm for learning. Many teachers teaching English words or phrases, it often uses “If you can, stand up” the way the students stand up and quickly read words or phrases, reading continues to stand up and sit down immediately and read another word or phrase, the results of the anti- enable students to feel jaded, so that students lose interest in participation in learning activities.