Imitation As the Way of Learning

However due to the ineffectiveness of correction, where when children start to string sentences together and they come out with things like this "Want other one spoon, Daddy." Which one can see almost makes sense and the child had obviously developed the sense of the numerical value of the spoon and that he/she only requires one spoon. But the father goes on to see if he can make the child lose the "One" from the speech and the child is still at the stage where it hasn't acquired the knowledge that it can lose the amount of a product required with a value of less than two.

Imitation is one basic starting point for how children acquire their language. Because if the parents/ caretakers speech is taken away, then children's language doesn't develop to the same level as children who are raised in a normal speaking environment. It is very important to have normal speaking caretakers surrounding a normal hearing child during the acquisition period so that they can develop the foundations for how people should talk. There is an example used, that two deaf parents gave birth to a normal hearing child and they were worried that the child would lack the ability to talk properly so they put the child in front of the television and thought that it would be a suitable substitute for proper conversation.

However it was proved to be an unsuccessful substitute as the child learnt all the theme tunes to the varying television shows but could only talk in the most basic of English, but could sign as fluently as his parents could. It was shown that television is no substitute for human conversation and that to develop a full linguistic vocabulary actual conversations have to take place, so that a child can subconsciously understand the speech directed at it.

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