What about learning second languages in other countries?
Broca’s area
native like quality exposure
six year period
how much exposure to a second language should a kindergarten-aged child receive in order to develop native like competency or at least reduce such barriers?
Genie used her right hemisphere for both language and non-language functions
particularly good at tasks involving the right hemisphere
46 Chinese and Korean natives living in America
three and seven years of age on arrival did equally as well as the control group of native English speakers. Those between eight and fifteen did less well
This article reminds me of the "Singing Neanderthals" reading that we did. Perhaps whales, like babies, hear tones instead of actual words and can also perceive emotions of other whales they communicate with. If this is so, would this 'tone communication' be considered a language in of itself?
GENIE An Abused Child's Flight From Silence. By Russ Rymer. 221 pp. New York: HarperCollins Publishers. THE story of the girl known by the pseudonym Genie, who spent the first 13 years of her life locked in a bedroom alone, alternately strapped down to a child's potty chair or straitjacketed into a sleeping bag, fed on baby food and beaten with a wooden paddle when she so much as whimpered, is really three stories woven together.
I'm about to become a father. And among the many questions racing through my mind is an odd one I can't yet answer. It's not the existential question of whether I'll be a good dad or the basic question of whether I'll drop the baby while walking.
Study shows that traditional toys and books should be used more for early language development whereas play with electronic toys should be discouraged.Transforming dinosaur, learning bug, talking farm or baby cellphones - these are some of the most whiz-bang toys most parents would think to buy for their kids this Christmas.
Every time my daughter babbles mem-mem-mem or da-da-da, I get excited that this word will be the first one that makes sense outside of her 1-year-old universe. Recently at breakfast, I even took a video, hoping to document the very moment it happens. But for the past few months, as I have anxiously ...
This article done talks about how children with autism have their "critical period" of language learning affected. Research was done through observation through an EEG which monitored babies of multiple age groups, specifically their auditory cortex.