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Chapter 1 How Children Learn English 引言：儿童与身俱来对世界就有自己独特的感受和观察的角度。他们活泼好动；他们对周围的事物充满好奇；他们对一切充满幻想；他们富有创造力。。。。。。这些独特的本性在他们本族语习得与学习中经常被无意识地运用，并成为他们掌握本族语的保障之一。这些独特的本性一旦在外语学习中得到充分的利用与发挥，将会成为他们学习外语的巨大推动力。本章试图探讨儿童语言学习的特点，并以此揭示推动儿童学好外语的方法。 Objectives By the end of this chapter, hopefully you will be able to Identify children’s special characteristics and instincts① in language learning. Explain how these abilities may support children’s foreign language learning. Exploit children’s characteristics in your teaching contexts②. Understand the influence of language learning conditions. Provide more favorable conditions for language teaching. Part 1 Children’s characteristics and instincts In foreign language teaching, only when we know our learners well can we find the best Way to teach. We need to unpack the generalizations to find out what lies underneath as characteristics of children as language learners. Knowing children’s characteristics and instincts in foreign language learning makes effective teaching possible. ①characteristics and instincts: qualities which will help children to learn a foreign language, e.g. the skill in using limited language creatively, imagination, etc. ② Context : language takes place in a particular situation for a purpose with specific participants with reference to events or topics –this is all parts of the context and these aspects help to give clues to the meaning. Task 1.1 How good learners learn English Before exploring① children’s special characteristics and instincts in foreign language learning directly, let’s prepare ourselves with the following discussion: Think about your children learning English and answer the following questions: 1. What do they like doing in the classroom? 2. What do good English learners do in the classroom? Task 1.2 Children are imaginative Read Anecdote② 1 and then brainstorm③ the following questions in pairs or groups. Anecdote 1 Context: the children are in their 3rd year of English le