Cognitive Considerations

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Introduction

Human cognition develops rapidly throughout the

first sixteen years of life and less rapidly thereafter.

Jean Piaget- Course of Various Stages

Sensor motor stage (birth to two) Preoperational stage (ages two to seven) Operational stage (ages seven to sixteen) Concrete operation stage (ages seven to eleven)

Formal operational stage (ages eleven to sixteen)

Sensor motor stage (birth to two)

To see/ feel/ touch/ hear is to believe A direct cognition

Preoperational stage (ages two to seven)

Understand and know how to use symbolic signs

Self- centered thoughts

Operational stage (ages seven to sixteen)

Concrete operation stage (ages seven to eleven) Formal operational stage (ages eleven to sixteen)

Jean Piaget

Conceptual development is a process of progressively moving from states of disequilibrium to equilibrium and that periods of disequilibrium mark virtually all cognitive development up through age fourteen or fifteen, when formal operations finally are firmly organized and equilibrium is reached.

Ausubel

Adults learning a second language could profit from certain grammatical explanations and deductive thinking that obviously would be pointless for a child.

Ausubel(2)

The distinction that he made between rote and meaningful learning.

People of all ages have little need for rote, mechanistic learning that is not related to existing knowledge and experience.

Vocabulary

Pedagogical 教學的 Variables 變數 Hindrance 妨礙 Egocentric 自我中心 Decentration 不專注 Anecdotal 軼事的 Counterevidence 反證

Ellen Rosansky

Initial language acquisition takes place when the child is highly “centered”.

Ellen Rosansky(2)

This lack of flexibility and lack of decentration may well be a necessity for language acquisition

Vocabulary

Affirmatively 肯定地 Paradigms 範例 Puberty 青春期 Cognitive 認知的 Domain 領域 Equilibration 平衡 Equilibrium 均衡

More Information

Young children are not “aware” that they are acquiring a language.

It’s said that “a watched pot never boils”; is it possible that a language learner who is too consciously aware of what he or she is doing will have difficulty in learning the second language?

Vocabulary

Disequilibrium 不安定；不均衡 Tolerant 可忍受的 (intolerant 不可忍受

的 ) Tolerance (n.) Ambiguity 模稜兩可；含糊不清 Acute 尖銳的；敏銳的 Complexities 複雜的事物

Vocabulary

Mimicking 模仿 Contextualize 將 ( 音素、單詞 ) 置

於適當的上下文中 Untutored 未受教育的、天真無知的 Illuminating 啟發 Repetition 重複的事物；重複

Conclusion

If an adults learning a foreign language by rote methods are compared with children learning a second language in a natural, meaningful context, the child’s learning will seem to be superior.

The Child Happens to Be Learning Language Meaningfully

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