Thursday, October 1, 2009
Post 5-B
I feel like using flash cards to help your child learn language is not the best of ideas. As we learned in the video last class, children begin the language development process by imitating sounds they hear when spoken to, and as far as I know flashcards don't talk. The video also said that children going through this process do not do so in a passive manner. They cannot pick up just any sound they hear, they need to be spoken to. The whole thing depends ion parent child interaction, and flash cards just don't cut it. Piaget would disagree with this method because he believed children learned by sensory experiences and once again, flashcards are not going to give the right kind of stimulation to elicit the desired response.
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I agree about the importance of parent/child interaction. They need to hear the sounds and practice them. Visualizing a word will mean nothing to them unless they hear the word at the same time.
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