North Shore School of Talent Education

Environment  & Listening from the age 0

 

Before birth, we were surrounded by the sound of language and conversations. We absorb those sounds and become acculturated to the language of our environment. 

 

 

 

 

 

Learning in a Positive Environment

 

As babies imitate the sound of the language, it sounds like incoherent babblings. No parents would say," You aren't saying that correctly, try again!"

 

Once a sound, a word, or a phrase is learned, it is not to be discarded. As words become meaningful, we then refine and gradually integrate them into growing body of useful knowledge: be able to engage in a conversation, to create phrases and sentences in a logical and organized manner.

 

 

Repetition and Accumulation

 

As we learn to speak, the words are continuously repeated until it become part of our vocabulary. Only through frequent repetition can one master the meaning and function of the language.

 

Once a sound, a word, or a phrase is learned, it is not to be discarded. As words become meaningful, we then refine and gradually intergrate them into growing body of useful knowledge: be able to engage in a conversation, to create phrases and sentences in a logical and organized manner.

 

 

 

Learning With Parents and Other Children

 

Parents play a major role in their child's development, just as they do in: mental and physical skills, values, ideas, and language. Aside from parents, children are also strongly motivated to learn new skills by watching and listening to other children. There's an instinctive recognition that a skill mastered by another of a similar age must be achievable and worth pursuing.

 

For optimal learning, children need access to an environment where their language is reinforced and shared with others. If the language is not perceived to be relevant in the wider context of life outside their home, it may eventually seem to have little value.

 

 

Learning How to Read

 

We do not expect children to learn how to speak and read at the same time. Through observations, many children have mastered an amazing amount of words, including articulate expression and efficient communication well before they learn how to read. 

 

After several years of develop abilities to think, children then learn how to read and write. We learned to read with understanding because of ALL the experiences: listening, imitating, thinking.