Questão de Língua Portuguesa

4 When the kids grow older, they often are praised for speaking properly and corrected when they don't. From this correction and praise comes the learning theory that language comes from stimulus and stimulus-response. However, this language acquisition theory, logical as it may be, fails to explain how new phrases and new words form since it's all about repeating and mimicking what people hear from others. When learning a second language (an additional language to your native language), the development of meaning is one of, if not the, most important part. There are many types of meaning such as grammatical (morphology of a word, tenses, possession, etc.), semantic (word meaning), lexical (meaning that comes from our mental lexicon), and pragmatic (meaning that depends on context). Mastery of each of these is necessary when acquiring a second language. The stages of second-language acquisition are much like those of a first-language acquisition. However, people and kids learning a second language will take longer than they did with their first-language to come to full fluency in their second language. Kids who grow up bilingual have been proven to usually take longer to begin speaking because their brains are trying to sort out the grammar between the two (or more) language systems. For the process of language acquisition—especially when acquiring more than one language—the younger, the better. Studies have shown that learning new languages helps fight against neurodegenerative conditions such as 'Alzheimers. However, there are a multitude of reasons, and numerous studies that show how healthy for our brain it is to be bilingual. Scientists have found brain mechanisms that assist in early language development. Phonemic awareness (one's ability to understand sound in language such as the difference between “bed” and “bad”) is essential to language development. The study found that the way an infant's brain responds to phonetic stimuli (such as hearing someone talking) reflects their language ability, as well as their pre-reading abilities. This can be used as a predictor of how well they will be able to read and speak at age three and age five ( Text adapted) Available in: https://blog.cognifit.com/language-acquisition-theory/.