TEACHING ENGLISH TO CHINESE CHILDREN BY READING STORYBOOKS： A CASE STUDY

Reading storybooks has been proved to be an effective way to start learning English for a Chinese child in the United States.Based on the analysis of the child's English learning content,processes, and context, this paper re-evaluates Krashen's five hypotheses in second language acquisition. Storybooks have provided children with an interesting and comprehensible content. By integrating various foreign language instructional approaches into reading storybooks, children are motivated to learn a real and natural foreign language, their cultural appreciation is cultivated, and English performance improves.Storybook reading is a programme that Chinese English teachers can use to enhance the ever-booming English programme in China.