h a l f b a k e r y"My only concern is that it wouldn't work, which I see as a problem."
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Remember BF Skinner's glass box? My idea is much less austere, and has good consequences. In order to foster brilliant children, as soon as "Bobby" is born, his parents place him in the Language Room: a play room with many hidden speakers. They slip in the CD "MetaWorld" a recording of 1,000 of the
world's languages, where the speakers speak conversation, and also simply vocabulary. This is linked to a projector where pictures/situations match to the words being heard. In no time, young Bobby is multilingual.
Upgrades come with even more languages.
Speech Development
http://www.nancydev...echDevelopment.html
"Do not rely on television to teach your children language. Besides not teaching good language skills, it can prevent children from ever learning to use language correctly." If television doesn't work, then this probably won't either. [kropotkin, Oct 04 2004]
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When he begins talking the parents are going to have a hard time keeping up..... |
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Would it come with 3 yr supply of Purrina Rat Chow? |
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The real question, reensure, is: is your dislike of Skinner genetic or enviromental? |
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Babies growing up in multilingual environments do indeed gain an excellent grasp of each (and achieve a skill of translation that no acquired-language translator can match), but on the other hand they also take longer to achieve proficiency in each. This holds true for trilingual too, I believe. So this kid might become the most accomplished linguist of the millennium, but he won't not start making coherent sentences until he's thirty-six. |
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As a disclaimer, this is, of course, the rule: geniuses are exceptions. Like UB's kids, probably. Hmm. When did your prodigy commence loquacity, UnaBubba? |
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wow, I only have two laguages: English, and bad English. My kid may be screwed. :( |
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Well that's one way to raise children to be sure... (!) |
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I'm not convinced that this would work. Language acquisition doesn't come from sitting passively and listening to speech. Even television isn't good for encouraging development of speech powers. Learning languages requires conversation and interaction with actual human beings. With this idea it's an open question whether you'd realise it was speech at all. |
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