Advantages and Disadvantages of the Etymology Approach

Advantages: I. Enhancement of the fun of literacy. In the lower grades of teaching, due to the age of the students is small, the mind is more active, the traditional mode of teaching can not focus the attention of students, is not conducive to the improvement of teaching efficiency.

Two, to improve the intuitive nature of literacy in the lower elementary school students in the study of Chinese characters mostly use intuitive perspective to memorize the Chinese characters, this is because the way of thinking of primary school students is based on the image of intuitive thinking, the intuitive Chinese characters will be more profound memory.

Disadvantage: they need a certain literacy foundation and cannot know the pronunciation of the characters, which is not conducive to pinyin learning.