Multi-Lingual Babies

11/09/2015

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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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