Research On The Kindergartens Using Family Resources In English Education

Kindergartens using family resources in English education means that Kindergartens make use of material, human and other kinds of resources in the family to promote the children's English learning attitude, interests, listening and speaking ability as well as multi-cultural awareness. Making full use of these resources will benefit the children's English learning. This research presents the current status of Kindergartens using family resources in English education, analyzes the problems, influential factors and put forwards some suggestions.The researcher summarizes the relevant documents, discusses the effective results, deficiencies and enlightment for this research from these documents. This research is based on the theory of Bioecology and Second Language Acquisition.This research uses the methods of interviewing, observations and questionnaire-survey to gather information, and focuses on the values, resources contents, activities, strategies, influential factors and guidance for parents about the kindergartens' using family resources in English education.The results show that many achievements have been gained in family resources utilization, such as the teachers are aware of the importance of the family resources; take many forms, different tactics and activities to use it; give some guidance to parents. However, there are still some difficulties, such as the teachers lack of full awareness, support and instruction to parent's involvement. The results also show that the achievements and difficulties are also inflected by the teachers and parents' awareness and ability on family resources utilization.The research makes some suggestions on how to make full use of family resources in English education. Firstly, the kindergarten should create a supportive atmosphere for parent's involvement, train teachers on the utilization of family resources and make combination of the English education with the theme education. Then, the teacher should support the parent's involvement more, improve their abilities and give parents more detailed guidance. Thirdly, the parents should understand the meaning of children's English leaning, cooperate with teachers actively and create easy and delight English learning environment for children at home.The research points out the characteristics, limitations and further questions in the future research.