Montessori

Montessori

LANGUAGE ESSAY

Question: “Language lies at the root of that trams formation of the environment that we call civilization”. How is language is encouraged in Montessori prepared environment.

Answer: “Language lies at the root of that trams formation of the environment that we call civilization”. Reflection on this is necessary to define the history of language otherwise we may fail to see its connection with social life.
Language is a mean of communication, delivering ideas or feelings by the use of conventionalized sounds and signs, thus, being the spoken and written language. It is part of the human tendencies to want to communicate with others and this could underlie the emergence of language. Montessori said, “To talk is the nature of man.” Humans needed language in order to communicate, and soon, the powers that come with language revealed.
Language is the ability to understand speech and a desire to convey one's feelings and thoughts. The learning of language is truly the child's most remarkable intellectual achievement, and is amazingly accomplished rapidly in a very short time span. By merely living and without any conscious effort the individual absorbs from the environment even a complex cultural like language.
Montessori recognized that language begins with observation of sound and the human voice at birth. The evolution of the human language began when communication was done through pictograms and drawings.It then developed into ideograms when pictures began to turn into symbols. Later, these symbols became words, words involved letters, vowels emerged, one symbol came to represent one sound, and an alphabet was created, and then came the alphabet we now use today. And just as language evolved hundreds of thousands of years ago, it also changes with each generation. Unneeded words are dropped and new words come into use. Language rose and continues to rise with the collective intelligence. This also marked the civilisation of mankind. Language...

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