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Multi-Lingual Babies
November 9, 2015
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
-Lao Tzu
-Lao Tzu
Research conducted by the University of Washington's Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences and reported in Scientific American (November 2015) shed light on infants abilities to learn a second language. Researchers observed groups nine-month-olds in different scenarios -- some listened to Mandarin native speakers while they played, others watched a video of Mandarin being spoken, and others listened to Mandarin being spoken on an audio recording. The results:
"Only the group exposed to Chinese from live speakers learned to pick up the foreign phonemes. Their performance, in fact, was equivalent to infants in Tapei who had been listening to their parents for their first eleven months. Infants who were exposed to Mandarin by television or audio did not learn at all.
"The study provided evidence that learning for the infant brain is not a passive process. It requires human interaction."
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Displaying All 3 CommentsUnited States
It's humorous to see research indicating children learn through human interaction rather than CD, followed by sale of CDs....
Pennsylvania, United States
With children, even babies, spending more and more of their waking hours with 'screen' time, it must be stressed emphatically that children really need time with the people who care about them-not the TV, ipad, iphone or computer. Nothing beats loving, caring human interaction.
Spirit Child Yoga and ECE
Aurora, ON, Canada
This reaffirms research and best practice that has come before. This information needs to get out to families, and to unscrupulous businesses who prey on those with a lack of education around language aquisition. People want the best for their children, but there are many who are not aware of the whole Baby Einstein debacle in North America, and a similar story in China.
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