Thanks to my professor at Columbia University, Dr. Greer, with new research, I can learn a lot about language behavior every year. When I went to America last year, I learned that some key markers are very important for children's language development during their development. As long as children have these key marks, they will work like gears, thus driving other abilities. This is the development of the language ability we usually speak.
Let the children listen.
Skinner is the godfather who studies speech acts. He once mentioned that the listener will enhance the speaker's behavior. In other words, many times why we speak is because someone is willing to listen.
In language behavior, whether you "ask" or "call the roll", it is because someone is listening. Listening will strengthen the speaker's behavior, so we are willing to "speak". It's like a social interaction experience. A person behaves in front of another person because that object will react.
Then why is it difficult for many special children to improve their language ability? We often see that when you talk to him, he ignores you, or doesn't listen to others at all, or even turns his head. Many times, because children don't pay attention to what others say, it is more difficult for them to learn a language from others. If we want children to concentrate on listening to others, paying attention to others, or listening to stories, and finally enjoying the process, it is necessary to pass special exercises. For this type of child, we should not only emphasize pronunciation or expression at first, but also take time to let him practice how to pay attention to other people's voices and like to listen to them.
I did some research at Columbia University. Researchers make children pay attention to what others say through interaction, and when he pays attention, he will give him reinforcement. Through this enhanced interaction, children can enjoy listening to other people's voices. After a period of time, we found that some children, after this kind of training, will take the initiative to turn their heads to the source of sound when others are talking and pay attention to what others are saying. Once there is such a performance, the efficiency of children's learning will be improved in accepting languages, such as listening to instructions.
This is one of the gears mentioned above and one of the key signs for children to learn.
Let children observe others.
Another gear is also very important, that is, children will observe what others are doing.
We also have many children who don't look at each other at all and don't pay attention to what others are doing. You can imagine that if he doesn't pay attention to and observe others, it will be relatively difficult for him to learn some actions from others, such as imitation. For example, a group of children are playing house, and at this time our children ignore what they are doing. Just because he doesn't watch, he doesn't know what to do first after playing house. When he doesn't pay attention to these details, he can't imitate others, and it is difficult for him to join the game activities.
Another study by Columbia University is to make children notice other people's faces.
This process is very similar to the process of letting children practice listening to sounds before, that is, playing games with children in the process. Once he notices other people, he will match some enhancements to create a positive interactive experience. The result of this study is that once a child likes to pay attention to others, his learning and imitation speed will also increase and his efficiency will also increase. This is another gear.
The key symbol of high-functioning children
Finally, parents may wonder: Why do some high-functioning children speak English, but spend most of their time talking to themselves and not listening to what others say, so that they can't talk to others?
Because they can't grasp the key points of others and can't distinguish the key words, it is difficult for them to respond appropriately in the dialogue. What are the key signs that these children are missing? One of them is: social concern (listening). Columbia University also did another study, which used team games to guide children to pay attention to what his teammates said. This study also shows that once a child pays attention to what others say, he can grasp the key points in subsequent conversations with others, and the conversations with classmates will also increase, which is the key symbol of high-functioning children.
The brain map presented in the article shows that there are many stalls in the follow-up, but the stalls mentioned above are very important and many children lack them. We also found that many teachers and parents are desperately teaching listening instructions, imitating actions, imitating speech and imitating social interaction, but many children have been stuck in one place for a long time precisely because they have not considered that children need to establish these key marks first. Once children learn to pay attention to others first and watch, listen and listen to detailed content in an advanced way, their absorption in learning will be relatively improved.
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