My belief is that for all language learners you need to balance the logic of language construction, practical mimicry, and getting them to use the language creatively (trying to make their own sentences with what they already know). This often means it is useful to explain language concepts in their native language (for second language learners), so they can use those concepts to learn a new language.
A young child will not really comprehend language concepts as easily as mimicking practical phrases. Further, they don't have nearly as many practical uses of language as an adult would. In addition, a child has too much creativity at younger ages for it to be very useful in accurately producing their own unique ideas. Lastly, they have thousands of hours of listening practice before they need to construct any of their own phrases.
I'm curious what others think about the differences between how children and adults learn a new language, and what balance of mimicry, creativity, and rules / language logic you think is appropriate for different learners.
My rough idea of it is:
(ages refer to age they start learning the language, percentages refer to how much time a teacher should spend on each):
- Ages 0-5 use 100% mimicry to teach
- Ages 6-9 use 80% mimicry, 20% creative language use
- Ages 10-12 use 60% mimicry, 40% creative language use
- Ages 13-15 use 40% mimicry, 50% creative language use, 10% basic language concepts
- Ages 16+ 33% each, then favor creativity heavily once basic language concepts are understood.
I think for an adult mimicry, logic, and creativity feed into each other. For a child, they rely on mimicry and creativity to learn. Logic is scaffolding for creativity because adults avoid making mistakes more so than children, and they have less time to play around with incorrect combinations to learn the correct ones. What do you think?
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