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Learn To Speak: Play and talk with it for a while each day, repeating the same sounds, words, and phrases. Some birds will learn more quickly than others, may develop large vocabulary. Parakeets that do not learn to speak are nevertheless interesting and entertaining.
Dramatization of various kinds stimulates language development. Children like to take parts and read the conversation in stories. Role-playing, or the sociodrama, in which children speak as they think the characters they are representing would speak, has value for language development as well as for mental hygiene.
Effective speech is encouraged by an audience situation. A child can readily see the class lose interest when he fails to make his ideas clear. To talk in order to cause other people to like something, do something, 01 learn something is the strongest motive for effective speaking.
Formal programs for teaching children to read are available commercially in the form of books -and accompanying kits. These programs generally call for large printed words to be presented to the two-year-old child repeatedly during several short periods daily. Such programs are based on the theory that children will respond to written as well as oral language and can learn to read even before they learn to speak. One theorist even suggested that babies have an initial resistance to learning and must be forced to read in order to overcome this resistance. |
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