首页
登录
职称英语
Is language, like food, a basic human need without which a child at a criti
Is language, like food, a basic human need without which a child at a criti
游客
2023-11-22
64
管理
问题
Is language, like food, a basic human need without which a child at a critical period of life can be starved and damaged? Judging from the drastic experiment of Frederick II in the thirteenth century, it may be. Hoping to discover what language a child would speak if he heard no mother tongue, he told the nurses to keep silent.
All the infants died before the first year. But clearly there was more than lack of language here. What was missing was good mothering. Without good mothering, in the first year of life especially, the capacity to survive is seriously affected.
Today no such severe lack exists as that ordered by Frederick. Nevertheless, some children are still backward in speaking. Most often the reason for this is that the mother is insensitive to the signals of the infant, whose brain is programmed to learn language rapidly. If these sensitive periods are neglected, the ideal time for acquiring skills passes and they might never be learned so easily again. A bird learns to sing and to fly rapidly at the right time, but the process is slow and hard once the critical stage has passed.
Experts suggest that speech stages are reached in a fixed sequence and at a constant age, but there are cases where speech has started late in a child who eventually turns out to be of high IQ. At twelve weeks a baby smiles and makes vowel-like sounds; at twelve months he can speak simple words and understand simple commands; at eighteen months he has a vocabulary of three to fifty words. At three he knows about 1, 000 words which he can put into sentences, and at four his language differs from that of his parents in style rather than grammar.
Recent evidence suggests that an infant is born with the capacity to speak. What is special about man’s brain, compared with that of the monkey, is the complex system which enables a child to connect the sight and feel of, say, a toy-bear with the sound pattern "toy-bear". And even more incredible is the young brain’s ability to pick out an order in language from the mixture of sound around him, to analyze, to combine and recombine the parts of a language in new ways.
But speech has to be induced, and this depends on interaction between the mother and the child, where the mother recognizes the signals in the child’s babbling, grasping and smiling, and responds to them. Insensitivity of the mother to these signals dulls the interaction because the child gets discouraged and sends out only the obvious signals. Sensitivity to the child’s non-verbal signals is essential to the growth and development of language. [br] The reason some children are backward in speaking is most probably that ______.
选项
A、they are incapable of learning language rapidly
B、they are exposed to too much language at once
C、their mothers respond inadequately to their attempts to speak
D、their mothers arc not intelligent enough to help them
答案
C
解析
事实细节题。文中第三段已经阐明:但是,一些孩子还是说话晚。这经常是因为母亲对婴儿发出的信号不敏感,这些婴儿的大脑中有迅速学习语言的程序。故选C。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3208543.html
相关试题推荐
[originaltext]M:Mm…Ithinkweseeeyetoeyethere.Howaboutthoselanguages
[originaltext]M:Mm…Ithinkweseeeyetoeyethere.Howaboutthoselanguages
[originaltext]M:Mm…Ithinkweseeeyetoeyethere.Howaboutthoselanguages
(1)Underthe1996constitution,all11ofSouthAfrica’sofficiallanguages"
(1)Underthe1996constitution,all11ofSouthAfrica’sofficiallanguages"
PASSAGETWO[br]Explainthemeaningof"Thechoicebetweentwolanguagesisah
PASSAGETHREE[br]Whatisthepassagemainlyabout?Thedevelopmentoflanguage.
Itisnaturaltofeeluncomfortableinalanguageclass.You’reusedtobeing
Itisnaturaltofeeluncomfortableinalanguageclass.You’reusedtobeing
Itisnaturaltofeeluncomfortableinalanguageclass.You’reusedtobeing
随机试题
WhydoMostvisitorscometoCambridge?[br]WhatkindofexerciseburnstheMost
Inregardtothoseancientemperors,weneedtoassesstheminthe________oft
【B1】[br]【B9】A、enlargedB、increasedC、intensifiedD、expandedC词义辨析题。由but转折,推出结论
Rumorshaveswirledforyearsaboutthemysticalphone,whichFacebookintro
卵巢功能良好且性激素分泌正常的闭经,属于A.子宫性闭经 B.卵巢性闭经 C.
产后4天的产褥妇女,有下列主诉,哪项是不正常的产褥现象A.阴道流血量少于月经
下列是人教版普通高中数学教科书必修5的内容,据此回答下列问题。 问题:
Thechangeinthatvillagewasmiraculou
对庆大霉素不良反应描述不正确的是A.不可逆的肾毒性B.耳毒性以前庭神经损害为主C
(2018年真题)根据《期货交易管理条例》,期货公司的交易软件、结算软件,应当满
最新回复
(
0
)