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Re: 英研究﹕教文法無助英文寫作
Dear BillyM and Philipwhau,
I support such approach, but only if we have:
1. small small class of less than 20 or even 15 pupils
2. native English teachers teaching all English classes
3. 2-3 lessons of English every day, and the entire school should have an all-English environment
4. responsible and knowledgeable parents who can read story books and speak English with their kids
The absolutely wrong thing that the Education Department done in the past was that it forced all the local schools switching from "Grammatical Approach" to "Communicative Approach" way of teaching English in 80's given insufficient resources, for example, to provide sufficient native English speaking teachers for the schools.
Do we need native English speaking teachers to teach P1 to P3 students to communicate in simple English? I do not believe that our locally trained teachers are that deficient and incompetent. It is not rocket science. Just let the kids read read read and write write write and speak speak speak without criticizing them or correcting them too much, and they will excel. The magic with the foreign teachers is that they are more often more open minded. It is equally worse to have a foreign teacher criticising the kids' grammar all the time. A local teacher who speaks with a funny accent but can bring the kids the joy of learning is by far a better teacher than a native English speaking teacher who speaks the Queen's English but knows nothing but grammar.
So, the issue here is not whether the approach works or not. We are simply not ready to adopt this approach yet (if ever). I agree that this approach will somehow kill their creativity by forcing them to conform to the "model answer", but at least they can write some English.
What is the cause and what is the consequence? An English environment is of course an aid to learning. There can be no doubt about it. However, if the kids are made to be afraid of speaking or writing in English for fear of making grammatical mistakes, there will never be a good English learning environment. Good learning environment is not a pre-condition for switching to the right approach; rather, a poor leaning environment is the result of following the wrong approach.
We can never get the kids better prepared to learn if we as parents or teachers fail to do our job to make them feel the fun part of learning. People learn, generally speaking, for two reasons - either they enjoy learning it or they apprehend the need to learn it. Tell me, which of the followings is more effective - tell the young kids that they have to beg for a living if they do not learn English, or, make learning joyful and fun. It's not just about creativity or forcing the kids to conform to model answer, it is about the basic nature of our human kids.
Best wishes to all,
warrrren
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發表於 05-1-20 09:26
