The famous educator Montessori believes that children's language sensitivity period is between 0 and 6 years old. Sensitive period refers to a period when it is easier to learn a certain knowledge or behavior at a certain period of time in a child's physiological and psychological development than in other periods. In other words, during this period, children have a faster learning speed and ability to learn for certain behaviors or knowledge. As the name suggests, the language sensitivity period means that children have a strong interest and desire to learn in language learning during the age of 0-6. Therefore, it is particularly important to seize this period. Let me briefly introduce some of the characteristics that children will show during the language sensitivity period.
1. Learn tongue, I believe that parents with parenting experience will experience such a thing. Sometimes, a child will say something inadvertently and will have repetitive behaviors. This is the child's learning behavior of "learning tongue imitation" and it is also an efficient period for language learning. Then during this period, we can create some conditions for them, such as watching some cartoons with excellent language expression, or even some simple English picture books, which may arouse their desire to learn and imitate, and achieve twice the result with half the effort.
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2. Speak swear words, Some children will suddenly burst out a few swear words to scare the parents. When encountering this situation, parents do not need to panic or stop them strictly, because it is very likely that they themselves do not know what they mean. This situation is actually a "credit" for "learning tongue imitation", but ultimately it is the "credit" of parents. It is very likely that the parents say swearing in front of him, and the children learn to imitate what the parents say. Therefore, the child's growth environment is also very important. It is not unreasonable to say that "those who are close to red are red, and those who are close to ink are black". The environment will have a subtle influence on children. During the period when children’s language sensitivity, communicating with others in front of children should be civilized and healthy, and shape yourself into a positive role model. If children’s role models are excellent, then children will not be bad either.
dad is learning by his child
3. Talking to himself, parents will encounter such a situation. When children do their homework or play at home, they will mumble constantly. At this time, some parents will think that their children are not doing their homework seriously, or feel that their children have mental problems. In fact, they are not that serious. When children are playing, "talking to themselves" is a "voice" of their inner thinking and a process of thinking expounding. This process not only cultivates children's thinking, but also reflects the "sounding" of their thinking. To give a brief example, when a child is playing with an Ultraman toy, what he might think of in his mind is how Ultraman defeated the monster and saved humans. He talked to himself that he wanted to express a scene in his mind, so parents should not intervene too much, and should not worry about the child's mental problems. On the contrary, you can also play with him, understand his inner thoughts, and encourage him to express it boldly, which will not only cultivate his thinking ability and language expression ability, but also make him able to speak, dare to speak, and be more confident.
In general, this period is the golden period of language learning, and what we need to pay attention to is how to be an excellent role model and influence children "still and unrestrained" under the image of not being strict.
