Creativity is the ability to produce novel and appropriate work.Ronald Carter defines creativity in language as “imaginative analogy”. Creativity in language is a fundamental advantage in our everyday spoken language. It is a distinctive character of all people and not for exceptional people. Language and creativity covers that speaker manipulate in meanings in a variety of creative ways and in a wide range of social contexts. Children’s creative play with language is a social practice and a rehearsal of adult life. Folklorists have been interested in children’s lore and they associated with childhood the playground rhymes and games. Moreover, they have celebrated children’s artful language play as a quintessential tradition. Child’s first years are more relevant and primary because they have the chance to save information and learn more than the adult in which they engage and learn from their social environment. The exposure of children’s creativity takes different forms and it is expressed in various ways. Linguists have reported that children’s language play is concerned with the creative nature of language acquisition in addition to the importance of the degree that child has mastered. Now is creativity in language innate or acquired?
Babies are born with no ability to speak in the first month. But they have the capacity to learn language by listening to the speech of people around them. they can hear and listen even before they are born. Children are born with a genetic predisposition which gives them the chance to engage actively, to save information and words and to communicate effectively and respond to others. For Trevarthen, infants are innately equipped to communicate and this characteristic includes ...
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... Finally, we can say that all babies are the most intelligent human in the world, they can learn in an active way and save a lot of information and names.. There is no stupid human they all have the ability to communicate, to respond to others. This advantage needs training and care from the parent. Children prefer to learn by playing games because it is fun for them. It gives them the chance to discover the environment and how they solve problems and how they engage with others. Speech play is instrumental to the acquisition of adult verbal art. Also the parents are responsible for their children to choose for them the best game and to communicate with them through using the great word because any false word it will be saved by the infant. Vygotsky remarked’ play is the natural means of a child’s self-education, an exercise oriented toward the future.’
Shaughnessy, M. F., & Wakefield, J. F. (2003). Creativity: Assessment. In N. Piotrowski & T. Irons-Georges (Eds.), Magill's encyclopedia of social science:Psychology (pp. 459-463). Pasadena, CA: Salem Press. Van Hoose, W.H. (1980).
Language Development: In terms of language development, I did not hear any verbal communication from Manden along my observation. However, he can already recognize his own name and responded to it by smiling or wriggling. This is what I expected for a 6-month-old infant in their language development. Nevertheless, I did not hear Manden’s babbling like what is expected from infant...
Shaughnessy, M. F., & Wakefield, J. F. (2003). Creativity: Assessment. In N. Piotrowski & T. Irons-Georges (Eds.), Magill's encyclopedia of social science:Psychology (pp. 459-463). Pasadena, CA: Salem Press.
Dr. Alison Gopnik’s drew the following truth that “children are intellectually more skilled and far more sophisticated in their thinking then we ever imagined”(Gopnik2009). Gopnik also stated preschoolers are extremely well designed for learning. They are naturally curious. They learn through exploring and playing. “The value of play” was also presented in Gopnik’s research. He clarified that when children engage in pretend play, they will have imaginary characters and explore other world. They are learning peoples’ nature, how people think, do, and work. This helps them understand themselves and other people, to improve their social traits or in balancing school, and to increase their social competences in life. Gopnik demonstrated the idea
Like people of all ages, children are driven to communicate. For infants, their primary goal is to communicate their needs: “I’m hungry, tired, cold, wet, bored, in pain,” and so on. Infants translated these needs using their inborn capacities to cry, gesture, make facial expressions, and turn toward or away from something. Twin Babies Talking video cultivates a lot about children expression through sound. Indeed, the two babies are able to relate themselves to a certain type of communication by using the word (dadadadada….) in some many ways.
NACCCE definition of creativity: ‘Imaginative activity fashioned so as to produce outcomes that are both original and of value’(NACCCE, 1999:94).Creativity can motivate children to learn new information through a creative outlook. One of the biggest issues teachers have is between teaching required content and integrating creativity into the daily sessions. The National Curriculum and state standard often create boundaries towards the teacher’s ability to develop the lesson, as the intention of including creativity sometimes resorts in a teacher centred learning environment. The teacher’s role should be to generate lessons and create activities that encourage students to be more open to their creative side. This is vital as it exposes children with varying learning styles to different ways of learning.
“Because brain development is so heavily dependent on early experience, most babies will receive the right kind of nurturing from their earliest days, through our loving urges and parenting instincts. “there are so many things that I’ve read that could make a baby smarter like reading to them while pregnant or even talking to them so the brain can develop the right way while in the womb but loving your child and catering to them is the right way and will eventually lead them to the right path to learn. Yes, speaking to your child and listening to them can and will critically develop the brains –building years. Parents do forget that a child’s developments are not when school begins but before that. If a child comes from a home that listens and speaks when the other one is done and knows manners the child will develop that and learn that is the right way to go about things as oppose to a house hold who may talk over each, shout or even hit their brains will pick all that up like a sponge. So talking to your child and actually listening to them is one of the best brain developments. “Language is fundamental to most of the rest of cognitive development, this simple action—talking and listening to your child—is one of the best ways to make the most of his or her critical brain-building years.” (Zero to
Soderstrom, M. (2007). Beyond baby talk: Re-evaluating the nature and content of speech input to preverbal infants. Developmental Review, 27(4), 501-532.
Creativity is a complex process to be studied, however a lot of recent researchers in Neuroscience and Education have worked in this topic and have established interesting finding. Involving a great amount of the brain in networks, it is not totally clear the biologic process. However, it seems that the problem in the educative field is not the neurobiology but the neuromythology of creativity. In a first part, creativity will be defined following educative and neuroscientific point of views and limitations in experimentation. In a second part, the neurobiology of creativity will be presented and associated with its cognitive meaning.
... as highly unfortunate and even traumatic by a regular observer. From the scientists’ point of view, however, they prove that language development and its related disciplines are not just biological in nature. These are also affected by the environment where children grow up and whichever species they interact with, may these be humans or animals. The lack of proper environment that is conducive to learning and right stimulus had prevented these children from what most people consider as normal language and communication development. The results of studies and observations on these children are not totally consistent, which is why researches have to continue to search for greater knowledge on these aspects. It is only through greater understanding that children like them can be given better assistance in catching up with the lost years in their development.
Consequently, usually around the sixth month, the infant begins to babble. A large variety of sounds are produced in this period, many of them do not considered occur in the language of the household. During this period, children are learning to distinguish between the sound that are part of their language, and the one which does not. In the stage of babbling, children are learnt to maintain the correct sounds and suppressed the one which are incorrect.
Language is multifaceted. It contains both verbal and non-verbal aspects that children seem to acquire quickly. Before birth, virtually all the neurons (nerve cells) are formed, and they migrate into their proper locations in the brain in the infant. When a baby is born, it can see and hear and smell and respond to touch, but their perceptions are limited at such a young age. The brain stem, a primitive region that controls vital functions like heartbeat and breathing, has completed its wiring. Elsewhere the connections between neurons are wispy and weak. But over the first few months of life, the brain’s higher centers explode with new synapses. “For the large majority of people, the dominant area in language processing is in the middle of the left hemisphere of the brain, in particular in Broca’s Area and Wernicke’s Area” (Siegler, 1998, p. 142). This helps an ...
There is an overwhelming amount of evidence of the human race realtion to, creativity and that we all have an interest in education. Education is so important to us because it is the only thing we can use for this unpredicted future. All children have talents, but the education system crushes our creativity because we are taught to think a certain way. Due to the fear of being wrong has led children to no longer be creative which is why many adults lose that “capacity” to be able to be creative. The very few children who are allowed to continue using their creativity tend to not to be as dissatisfied their lives as much as other adults who were not able to pursue passions they truly enjoyed.
To begin with Sir Ken Robinson states that “creativity is the greatest gift of human intelligence” and therefore the education system should help children to realise their creative potential, unfortunately many are being displaced from their own true talents. Formal instructions and inquiry based learning are essential for creative education. There are some times when it is appropriate for the teacher to give formal instruction in skills a...
Vygotsky believed that children use language to plan, guide and monitor their behaviour. (Santrock, 2011, p.220)