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¡¡Language learning begins with listening. Children are greatly different in the amount of listening they do before they start speaking, and later starters are often long listeners. Most children will ¡°obey¡± spoken instructions some time before they can speak, though the word¡°obey¡±is hardly exact as a description of the eager and delighted co- operation£¨ºÏ×÷£© usually shown by the child. Before they can speak, many children will also ask questions by gestures and by making questioning noises.
¡¡¡¡Any attempt to study the development from the noises babies make to their first spoken words leads to considerable difficulties. It¡¯s agreed that they enjoy making noises, and that during the first few months one or two noises sort themselves out as particular expression like delight, pain, friendliness and so on. But since these can¡¯t be said to show the baby¡¯s intention to communicate, they can hardly be regarded as early forms of language. It is agreed too, that from about three months they play with sounds for enjoyment, and that by six months they are able to add new words to their store. This self - imitation£¨×ÔÎÒÄ£·Â£©leads out to deliberate£¨ÓÐÒâµÄ£©imitation of sounds made or words spoken to them by other people. The problem then arises to the point at which one can say that these imitations can be considered as speech.
¡¡¡¡It is a problem we need to get our teeth into. The meaning of a word depends on what a particular person means by it in a particular situation and it is clear that what a child means by a word will. change as he gains more experience of the world. Thus the use, at seven months, of¡° mama¡± as a greeting for his mother cannot be dismissed as a meaningless sound simply because he also uses it at another time for his father, his dog, or anything else he likes. Playful and meaningless imitation of what other people say continues after the child has begun to speak for himself. I doubt, however , whether anything is gained when parents take advantage of his ability in an attempt to teach new words.
¡¡Children who start speaking late ________
¡¡¡¡A. may have problems with their listening
¡¡¡¡B. probably do not hear enough language spoken around them
¡¡¡¡C. usually pay close attention to what they hear
¡¡¡¡D. often take a long time in learning to listen properly
¡¡¡¡A baby¡¯s first noises are ________ .
¡¡¡¡A. an expression of his moods and feelings
¡¡¡¡B. an early form of language
¡¡¡¡C. an imitation of the speech of adults
¡¡¡¡D. a sign that he means to tell you something
¡¡¡¡The problem of deciding at what point a baby¡¯s imitation can be considered as speech ________ .
¡¡¡¡A. is important because words have different meanings for different people
¡¡¡¡B. is not especially important because the change takes place gradually
¡¡¡¡C. is one that should be ignored£¨ºöÂÔ£©because children¡¯s use of words is often meaningless
¡¡¡¡D. is one that can never be properly understood because the meaning of words changes with age
¡¡¡¡The speaker implies that ________ .
¡¡¡¡A. even after they have learnt to speak, children still enjoy imitation
¡¡¡¡B. children who are good at imitating learn new words more quickly
¡¡¡¡C. children no longer imitate people after they begin to speak
¡¡¡¡D. patents can never hope to teach their children new sounds
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Learners report two main difficulties in reading, which may be linked. There are too many unknown words and as a result reading is simply not a pleasure. For some students, even reading in their own language is a chore.
¡¡¡¡Having a wide vocabulary is essential to making sense of written language. Of course, this is a circular argument, because the more you read the more vocabulary you learn and the more words you know the more easily you can read. Don¡¯t make the mistake of reading with your dictionary beside you, looking up every single new or doubtful word. This is laborious and prevents you from practicing the skill of prediction.
¡¡¡¡Sometimes in reading you find a word you know but the sense doesn¡¯t seem to fit in. This is not surprising because words have so many meanings and degrees of meaning. What is more, part of their meaning is shaped by the words around them. Keep looking at the surrounding words and asking yourself ¡°what sort of meaning would make sense here?¡±
¡¡¡¡The more that people study the reading process, the better they can pass on to language learners a range of advice to choose from. People have learned to read in all kinds of ways. Here is some information that could help you plan to be a better reader in the foreign language you are studying.
¡¡¡¡1£©Work out the general meaning first
¡¡¡¡When people read in a new language they often feel they must take a detailed approach, focusing on every word, particularly those they don¡¯t know. They read as if they were using a microscope, looking carefully at each of the small pieces£¨the individual words£©, but not necessarily seeing the whole picture at first. This is called the ¡°bottom-up¡± approach. Other readers try to look first at the big picture£¨the ¡°top-down¡± approach£©, attending to individual bricks only as necessary, a process that involves some intelligent guesswork. Generally this second approach is recommended by successful learners.
¡¡¡¡2£©Interactive reading
¡¡¡¡Another way of thinking about reading is to describe it as an interactive process, where the text brings something to you and you bring something to the text. Readers bring together all their knowledge of the world with what they see on the page in front of them. That is why, when reading in our own language, we don¡¯t need to read every word. We add meaning which is not actually stated.
¡¡¡¡3£©From supported reading to independent reading
¡¡¡¡Language learners start by needing considerable support as they read. Textbooks supply this support in the form of introductions that summaries the contents, glossaries, pictures, explanations of new grammar points. In your reading you need to move gradually from this support to reading more the text itself.
¡¾Ð¡Ìâ1¡¿. According to the author, ______.
A£®looking up the dictionary is of great help for the understanding |
B£®reading more promotes the gaining of vocabulary |
C£®the more you read, the less useful the dictionary will be |
D£®the amount of vocabulary is the key to reading |
A£®trying to look first at the big picture |
B£®looking carefully at each of the small pieces |
C£®focusing on every word |
D£®¡°bottom-up¡± approach |
A£®an important aspect | B£®a difficult and tiring thing |
C£®an easy question | D£®something special |
A£®just miss it and let it be |
B£®keep looking at the surrounding words |
C£®look it up in the dictionary each time |
D£®make sense of it with the help of dictionary |