Nag, Sonali
(2009)
Inclusive classrooms for children with different language learning needs.
Learning Curve (13).
pp. 43-45.
Abstract
Imagine the process of language learning to
be like a long sentence with many words.
Now imagine a hidden hand that changes or
even drops some words in the sentence.
Each such intervention would change the sentence in a
subtle way, but some changes would cause a bigger
shift in meaning than others. Dropping words like and
or this may have a somewhat less dramatic effect on
the sentence than changing the word need for deed or
rhyme for rote. Now imagine each of these changes as
the possible ways in which genes and brain mechanisms
disrupt the process of language learning. The impact on
language development is just as varied: some
interruptions are small and easily repaired; others
leave a big gap in language learning that stay with the
child well beyond the school years. Biological
endowments deeply shape the pathways to later skill
and talent in using language.
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