Re: How does a baby learn language, when learning requires concentration
- From: hrubin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Herman Rubin)
- Date: 28 Nov 2006 16:17:30 -0500
In article <4978-456B8DAC-660@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Penguins Are <penguinsare@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
How does a baby learn language, when learning requires concentration and
focus, and a baby is too little to do either?
They always say, you missed what was being discussed if you didn't
concentrate, but a baby is too little to concentrate yet picks up detail
after detail and learns to talk gramatically.
I understood the ability to focus narrowly only develops when a child is
older, so how do they all learn to talk by age 3 or so?
Is concentration needed? My aunt had not heard that children
could learn to read early, and I was reading phonically by
age 3, as well as knowing the Hebrew alphabet.
Also, how do you know that young children cannot concentrate?
They may not be able to concentrate for long, but how long
does it take to pick up meanings?
Perhaps something is wrong with our understanding of concentration,
learning, focus , retention, etc.
There are few worse uses of statistics than by educationists
and educational psychologists.
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