[Corpora-List] Average Daily Word Exposure

[John F. Sowa]

 >> Unfortunately, more recent studies have showed the opposite:
 > an infant's rate of learning language *decreases* with the
 > amount of exposure to TV.  Far more important than passive
 > exposure is the emotional involvement of the child with
 > caregivers and siblings in actively using language.

AF> Do you have any more information on these studies?

Just go to Google and type

    infant TV exposure

You'll get abut 1,640,000 hits, mostly saying that it's bad.

Then go to Google Scholar for about 54,500 scholarly studies.

There are, of course, variations that depend on many factors,
but the general principle is that passive exposure is not
sufficient for language learning -- for infants or adults.

John Sowa

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