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Order To Speak A Word: Turning to more nearly acceptable explanations, it is interesting that scientists in many fields in different countries and at different points in time have offered highly similar answers. According to these explanations, the stimuli for a voluntary act are the images of the consequences of that act. Thus, in order to reach for an object, one must know how it would feel to make the reaching motion and how visual experience would change as the hand approaches the object. In order to speak a word, one would have to know what it would sound like actually to say that word. There is reason to hope that studies of verbal behavior may provide a means of testing the validity of this theory.
RELIGIOUS ORDERS AND COMMUNITIES, in common usage, organized bodies of men or women living in each case under a monastic rule of disciplined prayer, work, and study, subject to a central authority. Originally the word ordo referred not to an organization, but to a way of life within the church. One could speak in general terms of the "order of monks" or the "order of hermits," and this is still true of monastic life in the Greek Orthodox and other Eastern churches.
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. |
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