How is language encouraged in; Montessori prepared environment?
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Question for DMT 106- Language:
Language is the ability to understand speech and a desire to convey one’s feelings and thoughts. The learning of language is truly the child’s most remarkable intellectual achievement and is amazingly accomplished rapidly in a very short time span.
“By mere living and without any conscious effort the individual absorbs from the environment even a complex culture like language”
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E. Hainstock, The Essential Montessori. – Pg. 81
Since the child builds himself from what is around him, the environment becomes an important factor. The environment must be prepared, aiding in the process of language development and support the child’s expanding consciousness. How is language encouraged in; Montessori prepared environment?
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The human civilization for as long as it has been existing, has been creating, developing and innovating different modes of communication. The early humans known as the “Homo Habilious” whose remains were discovered in the Olduvai Gorge site in the 1960 lived about two million years ago; and they are said to be one of the early generation of man who started language; they used or made different sounds and body gestures to convey messages. In other parts of the world, men have also found prehistoric drawings on cave walls that were used to convey messages; these drawings dates back approximately 30,000 to 32,000 years ago.
The Oxford Dictionary defines language as; “the method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way.” As described in the first paragraph; language is a system of communication in which he human being interact with each other. When a collection of sounds have an agreed meaning in society; it becomes the ‘language’ or mode of communication that will be used in that society or community. This mode of communication is how humans exchange their thoughts and feelings and it also enables one to
Question for DMT 106- Language:
Language is the ability to understand speech and a desire to convey one’s feelings and thoughts. The learning of language is truly the child’s most remarkable intellectual achievement and is amazingly accomplished rapidly in a very short time span.
“By mere living and without any conscious effort the individual absorbs from the environment even a complex culture like language”
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E. Hainstock, The Essential Montessori. – Pg. 81
Since the child builds himself from what is around him, the environment becomes an important factor. The environment must be prepared, aiding in the process of language development and support the child’s expanding consciousness. How is language encouraged in; Montessori prepared environment?
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The human civilization for as long as it has been existing, has been creating, developing and innovating different modes of communication. The early humans known as the “Homo Habilious” whose remains were discovered in the Olduvai Gorge site in the 1960 lived about two million years ago; and they are said to be one of the early generation of man who started language; they used or made different sounds and body gestures to convey messages. In other parts of the world, men have also found prehistoric drawings on cave walls that were used to convey messages; these drawings dates back approximately 30,000 to 32,000 years ago.
The Oxford Dictionary defines language as; “the method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way.” As described in the first paragraph; language is a system of communication in which he human being interact with each other. When a collection of sounds have an agreed meaning in society; it becomes the ‘language’ or mode of communication that will be used in that society or community. This mode of communication is how humans exchange their thoughts and feelings and it also enables one to
Bibliography: House Publishing, 1972 York, 1972 4. Tx. USA, 2012 http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~kemmer/Evol/ha