Comments on: Too many languages too soon? http://www.teacherplus.org/2010/january-2010/too-many-languages-too-soon Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:12:43 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Payal http://www.teacherplus.org/2010/january-2010/too-many-languages-too-soon/comment-page-1#comment-8489 Payal Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:16:00 +0000 http://www.teacherplus.org/?p=2571#comment-8489 If the delivery and assessment are age appropriate and pedagogically sound there is no question of `Too many languages too soon`. A child is born with a hundred expressive and communicative languages (Loris Malaguzzi), learning a few more is not an issue......it is teaching that needs to be tackled before this learning can happen. I did a blog on this with some personal insights very recently at : http://artoflearning.in/whats-in-a-language/ If the delivery and assessment are age appropriate and pedagogically sound there is no question of `Too many languages too soon`.

A child is born with a hundred expressive and communicative languages (Loris Malaguzzi), learning a few more is not an issue……it is teaching that needs to be tackled before this learning can happen. I did a blog on this with some personal insights very recently at :

http://artoflearning.in/whats-in-a-language/

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