Experts say children can begin learning a second language in preschool, and should begin be- fore the age of ten to take advantage of young children’s natural ability to acquire language. This advantage is lost by the time most children encounter a foreign language in the classroom, in middle school or high school.
Dr, Noble Goss, an assistant professor of Spanish’ and German at Harding University in Arkansas, says, as a father of bilingual (双语的) children (My wife is Mexican), I know that not only it is easy for children m learn one or more languages, but they have an amazing way of separating them out more successfully than you would think.
If a child hears two languages early, he accepts both equally. But if given a chance to speak both, can they be fluent in both
Not everyone agrees that early childhood is the only time to start a language, however. Reeves, the chairman and founder of the Center for Performance Assessment in Denver,
A. children have a special talent to learn a language
B. it will take a very long time to master a language
C. the linguistic ability will be weakened as one grows up
D. children have all amazing way to separate two languages
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The age at which young children begin to make moral discriminations about harmful actions committed against themselves or others has been the focus of recent research into the moral development of children. Until recently, child psychologists supported pioneer developmentalist Jean Piaget in his hypothesis that because of their immaturity, children under age seven do not take into account the intentions of a person committing accidental or deliberate harm, but rather simply assign punishment for offences on the basis of the magnitude of the negative consequences cause.
According to Piaget, children under age seven occupy the first stage of moral development, which is characterized by moral absolutism (rules made by authorities must be obeyed) and imminent justice (if rules are broken, punishment will be meted out). Until young children mature, their moral judgments are based entirely on the effect rather than the cause of an offence. However, in rece
A. They justify any actions that protect them from harm.
B. They view public duty as a justification for accidental, but not intentional harm.
C. They consider the motivation of actions when judging the behavior of other children.
D. They, as doers of harmful acts, disregard the feelings of the children they harm.
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