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…children need to talk as well as to hear. They need to play with words and reason with them. They need to practice talking about problems to learn to plan and organize their behavior. They need to respond to new words and stories to build a broad personal base of semantic meaning . They need personal adult guides to provide good examples of grammar— not primarily so they will sound “intelligent,” but because word order, or syntax, is the means by which they will learn to analyze ideas and reason about abstract relationships. They need to hear and speak the tiny units of language— such as ed, ing, ment—that convey fine-grained differences between what happened yesterday and what will happen tomorrow , between actions and things, between the shades of meaning that give clarity to mental operations.

Quote ID: 01150

Author

Jane Healy

Source

Endangered Minds

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