All about Liv Faya Diandra
Liv reageert heel erg goed op zowel instructies van mij als van Dian. Ik praat nederlands en Dian indonesisch.
Als ik aan Liv vraag “Klap in je handjes“, dan doet ze dat spontaan. Als Dian vraagt “Tepuk tangan“, dan doet ze dit ook. Ze snapt dus precies dat deze woorden hetzelfde betekenen, maar de ene instructie van pap komt en de andere van mam.
Lagi mampir ke blognya Ibu ini, baca salah satu entry-nya yang menarik. Bagus juga kalo artikel tsb dipajang disini juga.
Bilingual Babies
[Article] Babies, it would seem, know when more than one language is being used just by following mouth and facial movements.
It’s already been suggested that children learn languages with more ease and efficiency than adults, although the precise reason for this is not known. Now a new study, focusing on bilingualism in babies, presents intriguing evidence that could prove to be a clue in the larger question of how humans acquire language and the role the human face plays in the process.
The Canadian study, published in Science and led by UBC doctoral student Whitney Weikum, showed video clips to babies aged four, six and eight months in groups from monolingual English-speaking families and bilingual French-English speaking families. The videos were of a woman‚Äôs face as she read from Antoine de Saint Exup?©ry‚Äôs novel Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince). The reader switched between reading the text in French and English. The audio dimension was muted so that the babies did not hear her voice.
The babies aged four and six months from all families were able to detect the switch in languages only from the visual information presented in the video clips – researchers believe the babies used clues such as the way the speaker’s mouth changes when speaking different sounds of different languages or the rhythm of the speech. Their attention was held longer when there was a shift in the language being spoken. The eight-month old babies from the monolingual families no longer seemed capable of distinguishing the languages using only the visual cues. However, eight-month babies from bilingual homes seemed to maintain the ability.
The research suggests that as babies are learning language they develop a way to determine if a speaker is using a ‚Äúfamiliar‚Äù language and if it is important for them to ‚Äúprocess‚Äù that language. In addition to their capacity to detect different sounds of distinct languages, shown in other studies, they are extremely attentive to the face of the communicator. If a baby has only been exposed to a single language, that language gets established as the baby‚Äôs form of communication; once that occurs, they weed out linguistic skills that are unnecessary, judged extraneous. The bilingual babies continued to use this cue, as they learn two distinct languages: ‚ÄúBabies who only hear and see one language don’t need this ability, and their sensitivity to visual language information from other languages declines,” notes Weikum.
This article was published Monday, May 28, 2007 by Dylan (Journalist) at http://www.mycow.eu/article.php?id=548&P
Dalam rangka membilingualkan anak :
Language acquisition is an everyday and yet magical feat of childhood. Within three to five years, virtually all children become fully competent in at least one language. We accept this as totally normal. We seldom worry about whether or not it will happen even though it is the most complex accomplishment of early childhood. Even more remarkable are those children who simultaneously acquire proficiency in two, or more, languages during the preschool years. Within the same time frame as it takes monolingual children to learn one language, bilingual children learn two languages and become adept at using them in socially diverse and appropriate ways.
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