×

Loading...
Ad by
  • 最优利率和cashback可以申请特批,好信用好收入offer更好。请点链接扫码加微信咨询,Scotiabank -- Nick Zhang 6478812600。
Ad by
  • 最优利率和cashback可以申请特批,好信用好收入offer更好。请点链接扫码加微信咨询,Scotiabank -- Nick Zhang 6478812600。

非常赞同你的看法。中国的英语教学侧重于笔头的功夫,忽视听说的训练,然而语言是一个听说读写的综合体,不但语法要掌握好,关键还在于熟能生巧。不是片面强调听说的训练,而是综合的听说读写的训练。

本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛为什么小孩子比成年人掌握的快?还有一个是模仿的原因。语言很大程度上就是模仿。什么叫地道?就是用词恰当,表达准确得体,语气和面部表情也符合当地人的习惯,如果配上一些成语或者俚语,就更锦上添花。说白了就是你模仿得维妙维俏。

小孩子学英语,是好奇,为了看懂动画片,和其他白人孩子交流。成年人学英语却把它看成是为了找工作,无形中给自己很大的心理压力。如果换成是为了了解有趣和未知的文化和历史,同友好的白人朋友更好的沟通(如果你交上一些白人朋友),这样你就不会是被迫学英语,而会主动地快乐地学习。给自己找一个端正的学英语的驱动力,将给你带来学习的乐趣和动力。

一旦有了动力,自然就会有心。各种各样有利于提高英语和适合自己的方法也会自然得想到。呵呵。

提高语言是一点一滴积累的,每天朗读一篇感兴趣的文章,培养语感;看15分钟的热点新闻,锻炼听力,模仿播音员的语音语调,同时把握动态,作为聊天的话题;看英文报纸或者浏览英文网站,习惯英文排版和字体,培养阅读能力和提高阅读速度,留意当中一些跟你习惯使用的不一样的用词和一些比你平常使用的更为简洁的表达。遇到一些不懂的,有趣的单词不妨查一下英文字典,看看到底是怎么用,另外在不同场合还有什么其它的用法。如果再勤奋一点就把这些单词背下来,并尝试第二天使用这些词语,达到反馈作用。为什么我们通常能看得懂却不会用。关键是我们用得少,大脑里面没有反射,如果眼睛看,耳朵听,脑子想,笔头写,嘴巴说,这全方位得刺激大脑对这个单词产生习惯性的反射,我相信很快这个单词就会像I love you这么简单了。

最后想说的就是用心抓住每一个说英语的机会。在等公车的时候,坐车的时候,shopping的时候,付账的时候,休息的时候,散步的时候,乘电梯的时候,打球的时候等等等等,不妨主动跟身边的人打个招呼,很自然就可以打开话题了。如果事先准备好话题效果会更好。

呵呵,不小心写了这么多。祝大家学习快乐。更多精彩文章及讨论,请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
Sign in and Reply Report

Replies, comments and Discussions:

  • 工作学习 / English / 去了LINC分级考试考了Level 4,听/说7分,阅读8分,写作5分,去LINC读了2天,感觉极其无聊,毫无收获。有快速提高听力/口语和词汇量的好建议吗?
    同班有一大半是俄罗斯人,他们的基础极差,一个简单的语法要讲一个上午,弄得我坐着都想睡觉了。
    要找工作吧?专业技能是不成问题的,但是最大问题是语言还不能过关,目前最迫切想扩充单词量、提高听力和口语能力,大家有什么好的建议吗?
    • 努力学习英语中,一点点个人体会。
      本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛Obviously, my English hasn't been good enough to avoid mistakes. Please bear with me. I will appreciate it if you can correct some of them.

      From my personal experience, the biggest misunderstanding here is considering English learning as a sophisticated thing and trying to figure out how to speak English fluently instead of practising.

      I've ever spent too much time flipping over among the various study materials and learning approachs. Then I realized the most effective approach is just practising as much as you can. In order to improve English ability, it doesn't depend on how many approachs you have and how fancy your plan you are, but how hard you practise them.

      There's one thing I coudn't imagine before I came to Canada. That's not even the bad job market. That's I couldn't even find a chance to speak English for more than 5 consecutive minutes in this English speaking country. How ridiculous it is ! Yes,that's absolutely ture if you have no job, in most cases which keep your connections to this society. Then what I am doing is finding a local people who wants to learn Chinese and teaching him Chinese in English. It helps a lot.

      I would like to tell you what I'm doing to improve English ability .It might be also helpful to you.
      1)Teaching a local guy English ( you would like to visit chinese.meetup.com to find some clues, they have a monthly meeting)

      2)Read aloud and try to memorize some TV show transcripts. You can google it and get a lot such sites.

      3)Read columnist Linwood Barclay's articles on Toronto Star. I feel some of column articles are very helpful to improve your ability of spoken English and letter-writing. You can visit the Toronto Star's website(thestar.com) and get a list of all columnists by hitting the link "Star Columnists". Just pick up what most interests you.

      4)Watching TV. So far that's supposed to be the most effective way to improve one's listening comprehension, I was suggested to do this by tons of people.

      5)Sometimes stay away from a computer.This is not specific for learning English, but absolutely right. It consumes too much time when it provides us convenience. In most cases for me, when I was going to

      6)Use an English-English dictionary if you want to learn new words as a local people. I know it's hard to do.So I still usually use JinShanCiBai, but I choose an English-English dictionary when I'm not sure about a word's subtle meaning.

      Finally, I would like to share a saying excerpted from "美国士兵守则"
      If a way is stupid but works, it is not stupid.

      By the way, as a Java shark, you must know the book "Thinking in Java".For English learning, our final goal is thinking in English. However, nobody can force herself / himself to do that, the only feasible way is just practice.

      Hope it can help a little.更多精彩文章及讨论,请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
      • A super good article.
        • Thanks. 在原文发现几个错误,原贴已经不能修改,只好在此重发一下
          本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛Obviously, my English hasn't been good enough to avoid mistakes. Please bear with me. I will appreciate it if you can correct some of them.

          From my personal experience, the biggest misunderstanding here is considering English learning as a sophisticated thing and trying to figure out how to speak English fluently instead of practising.

          I've ever spent too much time flipping over among the various study materials and learning approachs. Then I realized the most effective approach is just practising as much as you can. In order to improve English ability, it doesn't depend on how many approachs you have and how fancy your plan is, but how hard you practise them.

          There's one thing I coudn't imagine before I came to Canada. That's not even the bad job market. That's I couldn't even find a chance to speak English for more than 5 consecutive minutes in this English speaking country. How ridiculous it is ! Yes,that's absolutely ture if you have no job, in most cases which keep your connections to this society. Then what I am doing is finding a local people who wants to learn Chinese and teaching him Chinese in English. It helps a lot.

          I would like to tell you what I'm doing to improve English ability .It might be also helpful to you.
          1)Teaching a local guy Chinese( you would like to visit chinese.meetup.com to find some clues, they have a monthly meeting)

          2)Read aloud and try to memorize some TV show's transcripts. You can google it and get lots of such sites.

          3)Read columnist Linwood Barclay's articles on Toronto Star. I feel some of column articles are very helpful to improve your ability of spoken English and letter-writing. You can visit the Toronto Star's website(thestar.com) and get a list of all columnists by hitting the link "Star Columnists". Just pick up what most interests you.

          4)Watching TV. So far that's supposed to be the most effective way to improve one's listening comprehension, I was suggested to do this by tons of people.

          5)Sometimes stay away from a computer.This is not specific for learning English, but absolutely right. Computer consumes too much time when it provides us convenience.

          6)Use an English-English dictionary if you want to learn new words as a local people. I know it's hard to do.So I still usually use JinShanCiBai, but I choose an English-English dictionary when I'm not sure about a word's subtle meaning.

          Finally, I would like to share a saying excerpted from "美国士兵守则" with everyone.
          If a way is stupid but works, it is not stupid.

          By the way, as a Java shark, you must know the book "Thinking in Java".For English learning, our final goal is thinking in English. However, nobody can force herself / himself to do that, the only feasible way is just practice.

          Hope it can help a little.更多精彩文章及讨论,请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
          • you gotta learn more writing skills.
      • 非常赞同你的看法。中国的英语教学侧重于笔头的功夫,忽视听说的训练,然而语言是一个听说读写的综合体,不但语法要掌握好,关键还在于熟能生巧。不是片面强调听说的训练,而是综合的听说读写的训练。
        本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛为什么小孩子比成年人掌握的快?还有一个是模仿的原因。语言很大程度上就是模仿。什么叫地道?就是用词恰当,表达准确得体,语气和面部表情也符合当地人的习惯,如果配上一些成语或者俚语,就更锦上添花。说白了就是你模仿得维妙维俏。

        小孩子学英语,是好奇,为了看懂动画片,和其他白人孩子交流。成年人学英语却把它看成是为了找工作,无形中给自己很大的心理压力。如果换成是为了了解有趣和未知的文化和历史,同友好的白人朋友更好的沟通(如果你交上一些白人朋友),这样你就不会是被迫学英语,而会主动地快乐地学习。给自己找一个端正的学英语的驱动力,将给你带来学习的乐趣和动力。

        一旦有了动力,自然就会有心。各种各样有利于提高英语和适合自己的方法也会自然得想到。呵呵。

        提高语言是一点一滴积累的,每天朗读一篇感兴趣的文章,培养语感;看15分钟的热点新闻,锻炼听力,模仿播音员的语音语调,同时把握动态,作为聊天的话题;看英文报纸或者浏览英文网站,习惯英文排版和字体,培养阅读能力和提高阅读速度,留意当中一些跟你习惯使用的不一样的用词和一些比你平常使用的更为简洁的表达。遇到一些不懂的,有趣的单词不妨查一下英文字典,看看到底是怎么用,另外在不同场合还有什么其它的用法。如果再勤奋一点就把这些单词背下来,并尝试第二天使用这些词语,达到反馈作用。为什么我们通常能看得懂却不会用。关键是我们用得少,大脑里面没有反射,如果眼睛看,耳朵听,脑子想,笔头写,嘴巴说,这全方位得刺激大脑对这个单词产生习惯性的反射,我相信很快这个单词就会像I love you这么简单了。

        最后想说的就是用心抓住每一个说英语的机会。在等公车的时候,坐车的时候,shopping的时候,付账的时候,休息的时候,散步的时候,乘电梯的时候,打球的时候等等等等,不妨主动跟身边的人打个招呼,很自然就可以打开话题了。如果事先准备好话题效果会更好。

        呵呵,不小心写了这么多。祝大家学习快乐。更多精彩文章及讨论,请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
      • 感激中ING.....................
    • 上学、打工。快速提高就想一夜致富那样不现实。都要最快速的慢慢积累...
    • 我当初也定级在4级,但我仍然从LINC得到提高,关键在于针对自己……
      本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛我们一般是读写很强,听说相对弱。
      初到班里,觉得每天讲的东西很浅,“都会”!
      但我们需要提高的是听力和口语。我觉得的“都会”只是在书面上或者在心里,如果同样的内容用耳朵听或者让我说出来,就不那么容易了。

      我找到了问题所在,于是就充分利用LINC班的优点提高我的听说。
      我所说的LINC班的优点主要是:这是专门面向新移民提高英语的地方,不但提供了让我们张开嘴说英语的地方,而且老师说得相对慢些,有耐心听我们的不标准甚至错误的英语,并从中理解我们要表达的意思,而且还纠正我们的错误。

      语言这东西不是但靠认识多少单词就能说好的,还有如何组织语言的问题,说出来的是句子而不仅仅是句子中的关键词。
      我最开始的时候问自己,我认识的单词能都灵活运用吗?最基本的语法能一下子说对吗(写当然不会错)?he 和 she 说串皮不?句子里的人称、单复数、时态、语态、助动词都匹配吗?我说出来的是english还是chinese-english?…… 很多看似简单的问题。

      就是一个字——练!
      我觉得在LINC班学是相当好的方法。
      还可以从身边小事学习。比如去商店时就特意看看各种东西都叫什么名字,或者干脆看flyer;再比如成语,从书本上背成语不如在实际生活中学,而且成语这东西关键是上下文极其确切含义,从实际中学来的一般都印象比较深。除此之外,我还看电视练听力,学学老外怎么表达所要表达的意思。

      BTW,在LINC班还可以了解加拿大的地理文化、风土人情,还能认识新朋友,交流各种信息。不要轻易说没有收获,cheer up! :-)

      罗嗦了这么多,希望能对你有帮助。更多精彩文章及讨论,请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
    • Find a job....unfortunately is the best way
      Now I am a full time student. Before I joined the school, I was enrolled in a pre-requisit course to improve English for international students. I felt quite comfortable with that because I could understand most English the instructors spoke (>99%). However, the real life is different when you are studying together with local students. The professors will not slow down like your ESL instructors. I can only understand at most 70% instruction in the first term although I got 8/8/7 in LINC test. Faint!

      This term, surprisingly, I felt some progress in the listening and speaking. But when I had group meeting with local students, there was still language barriers unfortunately. However, I found that part time Chinese students I have ever studied with do NOT have this problem. They speak very nice English, although some grammer mistakes and Chinese accents in it...Admiring!

      It is a dilema. No idea yet, but I am thinking to find a part time job, just want to practise English.
    • The two teachers gave me great help in English,
      and I'm now working as a Product Specialist and talking with our customers all the time:
      1. CICS LINC saturday class level 4 and 5, Kidist;
      2. ESL listening and speaking at St.Aiden school, Chris-Anne.