Experience in English Learning

Experience in English Learning

Zhang junlin, Software Institute of the Chinese Emy of Sciences

In essence, oral English learning can be divided into the following three key parts:

A. Vocabulary Size and correct pronunciation of each word. For daily sessions, the vocabulary size should be between and. There are two levels of vocabulary pronunciation: the most basic one is correct pronunciation. Correct, including correct pronunciation of each syllable and correct placement of the accent. The higher requirement is that the pronunciation should be authentic. The so-called "authentic" refers to the connection between the pronunciation of a syllable and the ups and downs of the pronunciation (the so-called foreign flavor ). This part is relatively simple. Because each word is discrete, you do not need to consider the word relationship. As long as you have perseverance, You can repeatedly practice and expand your vocabulary based on the correct pronunciation. (Watch English movies, learn the authentic pronunciation of each word, and write down the words you don't know to learn. In this way, you can increase your vocabulary and learn the correct and authentic pronunciation of words ).

B. pronunciation of the entire sentence. The pronunciation of a word is the foundation, but there is still a lot between correct pronunciation and authentic English pronunciation. There are several things to be aware of as the pronunciation of a sentence: how to deal with two adjacent words in a row-by-row manner, although in most cases, the combination of two words can be used, in many cases, the pronunciation of the second word may change. Second, the overall sentence is frustrated. The so-called authentic taste of a sentence is also reflected in the Process of music-like changes in the voice stream. It seems that it is difficult to use rules to learn. You can only find the feeling from the examples of a large number of native speaker. It's all about days. Third, pay attention to the stress of one or more words in a sentence. Some words are often emphasized by the speaker. However, when a word is re-viewed, its reading methods may be slightly changed. (In addition to watching English movies, it is difficult to find other ways to learn this part)

C. The most difficult part is how to construct an authentic English expression that expresses your thoughts. The biggest difficulty for Chinese people when speaking English is their thoughts and thoughts, but they cannot find a proper word to express the concept in their minds. This is the reason for lack of vocabulary or poor understanding of vocabulary. In addition, it is a question of how many words are organized into a sentence. This is essentially a syntax problem. Note that the syntax is not enough. However, even if you are familiar with grammar books, it seems to be useless, because knowing the syntax and being able to properly use the syntax rules are two different things. The solution is as follows: a large number of sentences imitating nativespeaker. This is a syntactic intuition exercise (so-called sense of language), which forms the conditional reflection of some grammar rule templates. In the process of thinking, concepts are usually directly transferred from concepts to English. Do not create concepts and then form Chinese, and then translate them into English. In such a process, you may be a skilled English user, but you will never be an authentic English user. Think in English and forget your mother tongue. This is the fundamental way to grasp english. But this is also the most difficult thing to do. I think it is really difficult for adults to learn authentic foreign languages because they can directly think in foreign languages. Adults tend to unconsciously express their thoughts in their mother tongue. consider translating the past. (Children are prone to two conceptual systems in their minds due to insufficient access to their mother tongue: one is Chinese and the other is English. Therefore, it is easy to switch between the two concepts to express their thoughts. Adults have formed a fixed mode of native thinking, and their minds store discrete irrelevant words, there is no conceptual system expressed in English. Therefore, the path for speaking foreign languages can only be thought-) Chinese concept system-> Chinese vocabulary-> English syntax, it is difficult to switch to translation only) I believe that if an adult consciously thinks directly in English, he will surely be able to achieve a very good English learning effect.

 

 

Summarized as follows:

Children's Foreign Language path:

1. First, two conceptual systems are formed: Chinese and English concepts.

2. Then two sets of Conceptual systems will be switched over to that conceptual system.

3. Get vocabulary and syntax output from the Concept System

 

Adult foreign language speaking path:

1. There is only one native concept system, and the English concept system is not formed. There is only one word list and an abstract syntax rule template.

2. Think in the Concept System of the mother tongue, select the mother tongue words, and organize sentences in the mother tongue syntax.

3. Translate the native words into English words and re-organize them in English syntax.