It's early in the day and I'm not up to actively searching for the article right now, but when EJ was an infant I ran across a study (probably in Scientific American) that infants and toddlers do NOT learn language (in the study's case a second language to the language their caregivers use at home) from watching television. Their study showed that infants and toddlers only learn language that young when it is in real-life interpersonal interaction with another human and when it's on TV it is just visual and audio stimulation but they don't retain knowledge of the language from it.
This of course changes by gradeschool because my daughter has picked up some foreign words from tv. But she picks up phrases and more words by interaction with her friends that speak two languages.
Baby Einstein folks were needless to say none too pleased with this study. There goes their marketing campaign!
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Date: 2011-08-22 03:23 pm (UTC)This of course changes by gradeschool because my daughter has picked up some foreign words from tv. But she picks up phrases and more words by interaction with her friends that speak two languages.
Baby Einstein folks were needless to say none too pleased with this study. There goes their marketing campaign!