English Learning
August 31st 2022, sees the end of Anna's Studio English School (a.k.a. Jintong Education), after both the Governments Double Education Reduction Policy and the continuing disruption of the Covid epidemic. However, where one road ends, another road begins, and we continue to look to move both online and into more one to one educational support.
The management of Anna's would like to thank all those, both staff and clients, for their support during the period of 2014 to 2022, it has been both an experience and an adventure.
Francis Lillywhite, a English born teacher, with over 20 years experience in teaching both in professional and school environments, works commonly with oral and reading, establishing clarity and accuracy for students of ages 1 one and half years old to a more mature sixty plus.
Liu Yan 'Anna", has been in teaching for over 10 years, and has built a successful skill in teaching phonics, reading and also currently applies her skills in educating Chinese students in Cambridge English, including K.E.T. and P.E.T. with Chinese students.
Different forms of education, come through a variety of different formats, including personal experiences. Learning English is not always as either easy or as difficult as people believe, however, the need for consistent learning and practicing is required. One of the best forms of learning, is taking a daily routine, and trying to apply it, to the needs and requirements of your learning capabilities, such as a swim, a walk in the park, or even looking at the weather.
Personal experiences, from a daily walk, to even taking a lift (elevator), can all be part of the learning machine. Consider, learning numbers, as you listen and watch the numbers change during a lift ride. How many times in a day, week, a month or even in a year, will you have the chance to learn these numbers. Read, recite and remember is a good system to follow.
Phonics, is a great way to develop your reading skills further, however, it is another way to ensure that your articulation of English is clearer and more accurate, than when you began. The best for of beginning, is to commence with the alphabet, then following onto two letter words, before taking the more challenging steps of C.V.C. (Consonant Vowel Consonant) words, for example c A t, b E d, s I t, d O g and p U t.
Then, the move to C.V.V.C. words becomes a lot more interesting, as sounds and complications are required conquering, but, in doing so, you will find reading and even speaking, more adaptable, for example Boot, goat, Feat and so on.
After you have catered the basic skill, then further moves onto blends, allows you to develop your basic skills further, for example BRead, Clothes, Dread and so on.
Blends however, are simpler to deal with, than taking on the A_E, E_E, I_E, O_E and U_E phonetic work, for example, cAkE, EvE, rIcE, hOle and mUlE. Conquer these, and reading becomes a great deal easier, as does the articulation of the words when speaking them, but this all comes from hard work, regular practice and a lot of speaking and even listening, to ensure that you have maintained the correct rules and ideas behind each of the words, and that they make sense in a sentence.
Even listening to conversations, can enhance the development of your oral skills, providing both positive and negative attributes.
A simple trip to the library or bookshop can be another platform for learning, both in reading, as well as listening to stories and following communicative instructions. Taking a look through different genre, and viewing various objects, subject choices, further envelopes your knowledge, even enabling, the construction and broadening of your imagination, as you release your realities to the fantasies of your dreams and aspirations.
Students at school, have the best chance for improving their English language, but, this comes with extra and more work.
Students mainly focus on reading and writing, however, if they wish to develop their skills further, especially in the oral area, then take home what they have learnt at school, and practice through the three 'R' recipe for success "Read, recite and remember".
Reading what you have learnt, allows you to input new knowledge, but they reciting it, over and over, allows you to grow in confidence, as you remember more and more of what you have learned and can recite it easily, without the use of reading material. It is amazing to see, that many of the students who follow this process of learning, actually end up developing their oral skills, without realizing they are doing it, hence, the success, comes from their consistent self leaning program.