Nice post, with a good video link, that revisits the human 'language instinct', and asks us to consider whether and how language develops when linguistic exposure is absent. The case of deaf children in Nicaragua developing their own linguistic system from limited language input provides good context to consider that "although children require a certain amount of linguistic input at a young age in order to learn language, they're capable of generalizing from incomplete information to something far richer and more complex".
The 'forbidden experiment' in language learning: what happens when language exposure is absent7/16/2014
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5/22/2017 12:48:09 am
Children is very necessary for learn the language and improve the grammar mistake. Mostly children are attend the class very attentively and pick the point very easily. Now a day's mostly people are learn the other country languages. 5/21/2018 08:47:28 pm
The sounds a language uses are called phonemes and English has about 44. ... In this stage, babies learn which phonemes belong to the language they are learning and which don't. The ability to recognize and produce those sounds is called “phonemic awareness,” which is important for children learning to read Leave a Reply. |
the Claves curriculum website is live!
Also check out the book at Guilford Press 
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