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Article
Sensitive Period for Language and Literacy
Publication: Montessori NewZ, vol. 45
Date: Mar 2007
Pages: 5
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Language: English
Article
The Language of Feelings
Publication: Family Life (AMI/USA), no. 3
Date: Spring 1983
Pages: 11, 20
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Language: English
Article
Montessori Language Lessons: The Almost Silent Way
Available from: MinneTESOL Journal
Publication: MinneTESOL Journal, vol. 4
Date: 1984
Pages: 7-22
Americas, Language acquisition, Montessori method of education, North America, United States of America
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Language: English
ISSN: 2474-7513
Article
How Can We Describe a Child's Language Abilities?
Publication: LM Courier
Date: Apr 1987
Pages: 4–5
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Language: English
Article
The Possibility of Learning Written Language in Early Infancy
Publication: MoRE Montessori Research Europe newsletter
Date: 2003
Pages: 5
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Abstract/Notes: "MORE Abstracts 2003? This work examines the early possibility of written language acquisition and describes a direct experience. In the London course of 1946, Maria Montessori said that the letters of the alphabet should be in children’s bedrooms from very early on and that she would also like to have floating letters in order to use them at children bath time. The composition of words is the precursory act of the super-language we call “reading and writing” and must not necessarily boil down to the mere writing and reading activity itself. Indeed, for Maria Montessori, “it is worth separating this act which can be clearly independent of its higher utilizations”. On the suggestion of a Montessori teacher of unquestionable experience, polished letters were presented to a one-year-old child. The great interest the child showed for this material seems to confirm the “hunger for words” that is typical of this phase, already described by Montessori and then confirmed by Nobel prize-winner John Eccles. The child we observed also showed he could use this material almost immediately to compose words like zio (“uncle”), cane (“dog”), his own name, Raul, and others besides. However, when he tried to compose the word gatto (“cat”), he found himself in insurmountable difficulty and turned to an adult saying, “No, gato no, gatto”, showing he clearly understood the sounds making up the word and thus the letters needed to compose it (gatto). This impossibility was connected to the fact that the polished letters have only one example of each letter. Therefore, a system of mobile alphabet letters was introduced so that the child could continue his fascinating work of word composition which greatly interested him. A study is being made in some child communities, in cooperation with the Montessori Studies Centre, in order to repeat this observation and to finally heed Maria Montessori’s recommendation: “Education must start at birth and the first two years are the most important for all the acquisitions of the psychic embryo”.
Language: English
ISSN: 2281-8375
Article
Living with Language: Dysfluency–and How to Deal with It
Publication: LM Courier
Date: Oct 1986
Pages: 5–6
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Language: English
Article
Language Development for Infants and Toddlers
Publication: Infants and Toddlers, vol. 2, no. 2
Date: Aug 1998
Pages: 5–6, 12, 14
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Language: English
Article
Baby's Body Language
Publication: Infants and Toddlers, vol. 2, no. 2
Date: Aug 1998
Pages: 7–9
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Abstract/Notes: Includes sample songs and rhymes
Language: English
Article
Dual Language Development: Making America a Multilingual Society
Publication: Infants and Toddlers, vol. 7, no. 4
Date: 2004
Pages: 5–9, 13–17
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Language: English
Article
Language Learning
Publication: El Boletin [Comité Hispano Montessori], no. 17
Date: Jan 15, 1984
Pages: 1
Comité Hispano Montessori - Periodicals, Language acquisition
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Language: English