For families living in the same family, it is too common for grandparents and grandparents to take care of their children. Many old people have been accustomed to speaking dialects all their lives, and occasionally speaking Mandarin with a strong local accent.
I am often asked this question-
[Does dialect spoken by the elderly in the family affect the baby’s learning to speak? ]
I can tell you the answer directly: it will have certain influence, but this pot must not be carried by the elderly. As parents, we should bear the responsibility of educating our children, and we should never destroy family relations because of this.
Does speaking dialect have what influence on babies’ learning to speak?
Many languages can cause [word fights]. Linguists generally believe that if two utterances cannot be directly communicated, the two utterances can be defined as two different languages. For example, Chinese and English are two different languages.
Then the dialects in Chinese are the same-
For example, Cantonese and Putonghua belong to Chinese, but people who only speak Cantonese and people who only speak Putonghua speak the same thing as chickens and ducks. Therefore, the pronunciation difference between Cantonese and Putonghua has reached the international bilingual standard, and we classify this situation as bilingual.
Some scholars have compared the differences between [Putonghua-English] bilinguals, [Putonghua-Cantonese] bilinguals and [Putonghua] monolinguals through experiments on naming pictures. The study found that bilinguals and bilinguals name pictures more slowly and have higher error rates than monolinguals.
For example, name the following figure
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[Putonghua-English] bilinguals will activate both the words [bicycle] and [bicycle]; [Putonghua-Cantonese] Bilingual speakers will activate the words [bicycle] and [bicycle] at the same time, and the process of selecting the correct words prolongs the reaction time.
Even if direct expression is not involved, dialects will occupy the cognitive resources of Putonghua, thus affecting the practice of Putonghua.
What should I do if speaking dialects affects my baby’s learning to speak?
It is inevitable to some extent that the elderly in the family speak dialects or Putonghua is not standard.
Our parents themselves should spend more time with their children and should master the methods of teaching their children to speak Putonghua well.
When children need to stay with the elderly for a long time, we can prepare children’s songs with good rhythm, which can help children learn correct pronunciation.
Poetry and children’s songs have unique rhythm, literariness and emotional expression. They can be better understood and remembered by children and are more likely to have positive effects.
At the same time, the old man can play the role of praiser in the middle, and many abilities can be praised. The child is right, we can praise him for [bravery], [generosity], [excellent performance], and we can also increase some recognition of his expressive skills.
Refine [well said], for example [well said! ] [Just as good as the host on TV! ] [Pronunciation is getting better and better! [Feels like you can say tongue twisters! ]……
Every parent should master the method of teaching his baby to speak.
When my child was still in his mother’s belly, we began to enlighten him on language. After he was born, my daughter-in-law and I have always insisted on talking to him when we have time and reading picture books to him every night.
Now that my son is 3 years old, what I am most proud of is his ability to speak. When he was 2.5 years old, he could say the advanced word “snowstorm ravaged”. What in kindergartens can also be fully expressed to us, which makes us very relieved.
Because the child can speak early, his information processing ability and logical thinking ability will be better than those of his peers. He is also more confident, has more desire to express, and relatively gets more opportunities.
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