[lit-ideas] How To Lose Your Mother Tongue (in 10 Easy Steps)
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:59:43 EDT
>What record was that, the Ring Cycle?
----- Well, the learning of one's first language is not as easy as one may
first think.
It requires: 1. practice
2. a lot of input
NO NANNY.
People think that nannies help; yes, with dishes, and bathroom management;
but not with language. They tend to have heavy accents, and are usually
pretty ignorant. Who would be a _nanny_ as a profession.
The child needs to learn language in some sort of order.
1. The first genre is poetry -- free verse.
2. Then come plays. The child should be able
to represent a speaking role in a play
3. Essay writing.
on a set topic.
Conversation with peers can only be inhibitive, since _they_ (the other
children) are most likely to be in an inferior position with respect to the
child we are talking about.
At a second stage, the child should be drilled with
syntactic constructions of the higher and higher type:
pro-alpha semi-anaphorical embedding.
(at least 5 a day)
pro-object with clausal tacit subjecting
(3 a day)
counterfactive conditionals in negated protases.
(1 a day)
Don't expect your child to manipulate Russell's logical symbolism. Give
him the choice to refer to pronouns genderlessly --
Enjoy his learning.
J. L. Speranza
Bordighera
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