Nontraditional Ways Research Paper
English
February 11, 2011
Learning Language in Nontraditional Ways
For most of us, the acquisition of language is something we never stop to think about. Learning language is something that seems to come naturally to us. It begins with our parents or caregivers, and continues throughout our lives. We rarely give any thought to how we learned all of the words and the meanings of the words we know today. Two girls, Helen Keller and Diana Adams, both blind since they were babies, were not able to learn language in the way most of us do. However, each girl was fortunate enough to have the right person cross her path, and teach her language in the most unusual and nontraditional ways. In “The Day Language Came into My Life,” from
February 11, 2011
Learning Language in Nontraditional Ways
For most of us, the acquisition of language is something we never stop to think about. Learning language is something that seems to come naturally to us. It begins with our parents or caregivers, and continues throughout our lives. We rarely give any thought to how we learned all of the words and the meanings of the words we know today. Two girls, Helen Keller and Diana Adams, both blind since they were babies, were not able to learn language in the way most of us do. However, each girl was fortunate enough to have the right person cross her path, and teach her language in the most unusual and nontraditional ways. In “The Day Language Came into My Life,” from