首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Is language, like food, a basic human need without which a child at a critical period of life can be starved and damaged? Judgin
Is language, like food, a basic human need without which a child at a critical period of life can be starved and damaged? Judgin
admin
2018-11-19
20
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 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 utters 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 teddybear with the sound pattern "teddybear". 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.
If a child starts to speak later than others, he will______in future.
选项
A、have a high IQ
B、be less intelligent
C、be insensitive to verbal signals
D、not necessarily be backward
答案
D
解析
细节题。短文第三段指出but there are cases where speech has started late in a child who eventually turns out to be of high IQ.即也存在这种状况:孩子开始说话晚但智商却很高。故选项D正确。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/yw47777K
0
大学英语四级
相关试题推荐
A、Extremelyhighcrimerates.B、Troubledhighereducation.C、Limitednaturalresources.D、Poorgovernmentstability.B题目询问新闻的主题。
Asanopportunitytohighlightwomen’scontributions,InternationalWomen’sDayhasalwaysservedtocommemorate(纪念)thecuttin
A、Alllanguageshaveequalvalues.B、Somelanguagesneedmoreeffortstolearn.C、Somelanguagesarecertainlymoreimportant.D
Before1978,China’seconomyhadaweakfoundationinagriculture,andtheratiobetweenlightandheavyindustrieswasquiteun
Neverbeforehassomuchmoneybeenmadebyasinglefirminsuchashortperiodoftime.OnJanuary27thTimCook,thebossof
WhenEnglishasaforeignlanguageistaughttochildrenattheprimaryandearlysecondarylevelsofeducation,itisgenerally
A、Itsgenerousscholarships.B、Itsworldwidefame.C、Itswell-designedcourses.D、Itspleasantenvironment.D
DesertFormationA)Thedeserts,whichalreadyoccupyapproximatelyafourthoftheEarth’slandsurface,haveinrecentdecades
DesertFormationA)Thedeserts,whichalreadyoccupyapproximatelyafourthoftheEarth’slandsurface,haveinrecentdecades
Fromthehealthpointofviewwearelivinginamarvelousage.Weareimmunizedfrombirthagainstmanyofthemostdangerousd
随机试题
求微分方程满足初始条件y|x=0=2,y’|x=0=一1的特解.
dx)∫0xt2dt=().
绘画作品:《清明上河图》
下列哪一项是重症肺炎的主要确定依据
男,55岁。反复不规则胃胀痛3年,胃镜诊断为萎缩性胃窦炎。临床疑有胃炎引起的上消化道出血,为确诊,合适的诊断方法是
燃气系统附属设备主要有()。
穿越铁路的燃气管道应在套管上装设()。
洋流是大规模流动的海水,对全球的热量平衡起着重要作用。读下图回答问题。为什么在有些大陆沿岸海区会发生上升流现象?右图所示的①②③④四海区中最可能出现上升流的是哪一海区?
依法治国是中国共产党领导人民治国的基本方略。()
SciencewriterTomStandagedrawsaptparallelsbetweenthetelegraphandthegemoflate20th-centurytechnology,theInternet.
最新回复
(
0
)