How do babies acquire languages?

Generally speaking, language acquisition theories have centered on “nature” vs. “nurture”, also known as nativism vs. empiricism.

Bringing up Baby Bilingual, How babies acquire languages? | April 30, 2009 5:52 am | Comments (0)

After finishing the post of Bilingualism and cognitive development, via the Internet I happened to run across a detailed bibliography, which listed a number of studies and articles, published recently in academic journals, books, magazines, newspapers, and brochures, about the relationship between bilingualism and children’s development.

bilingualism and its effects, Bringing up Baby Bilingual | April 17, 2009 11:50 am | Comments (1)

Does bilingualism help a child’s cognitive development? This issue has been a hotly contested debate over the decades among language researchers, educationalists, psychologists and sociologists. Here is what I found.

Bilingualism and cognitive development, Bringing up Baby Bilingual | April 13, 2009 8:13 pm | Comments (2)

In the last post, I showed you How to say mom, dad and baby in Chinese?. In today’s lesson, the Chinese words I am teaching are older sister, younger sister, older brother, and younger brother.

chinese for children, Chinese learning for babies, How to call family members in Chinese?, learn chinese for free, teaching young children chinese | April 12, 2009 9:15 am | Comments (1)

Most 9-month-old babies are confident crawlers and continue making major gains in development. DD was no exception. She moved swiftly to the next step and began practicing pulling herself up and even cruising. Although interrupted by her one-week sickness, her baby training this month still helped exercise her muscle and brain to reach the next milestone.

Baby's Training | April 8, 2009 4:44 pm | Comments (0)

This month DD finally figured out crawling. Once she did, she crawled swiftly and professionally. She even crawled to chase a puppy! She also quickly moved to the next milestone: pulling herself up to a standing position from sitting.

Baby's Growth | April 3, 2009 3:40 pm | Comments (0)

It is generally agreed that learning a second language early in life can bring children invaluable skills, such as viewing the world with different lens, better reading abilities, better academics performance and etc.

But do you know that learning a second language can help boost children’s brain power. In another word, being bilingual may make your child stronger, quicker and smarter?

Being bilingual boosts brain power, Bringing up Baby Bilingual | March 30, 2009 1:03 pm | Comments (3)

No wonder after studying English for so many years, sometimes I still feel frustrated of not being able to express myself and not being able to make myself clearly understood (I hope you understand what I am saying in this blog). I have to say second languages are much easier to master when starting earlier.

So say Dr. Kovelman, Dr. Baker and Dr. Petitto.

Bringing up Baby Bilingual, learn foreign language, Never too early to learn second tongue | March 25, 2009 11:02 am | Comments (1)

DD was sick through the next whole week. She had running nose, sneezed a lot, coughed frequently, ran a fever of 100.5F or higher, and choked or vomited because of the excessive dry cough. She ate less, slept more, and was more irritable and fussy.

Here are the things what M and I did when she was sick:

What to do when baby is sick… | March 19, 2009 11:37 am | Comments (0)

Most eight-month-old babies are busy babies. So was DD. She was busy practicing creeping and crawling, busy learning the names and benefit of her every day food, busy exploring the specific functions of her surrounding world, busy mastering the dexterity of her chubby little fingers and hands, and busy excising her muscle for the next breakthrough. Her baby training in this month helped her busy in achieving all these goals.

Baby's Training | March 7, 2009 1:13 pm | Comments (0)