[lg policy] UK: Children unable to talk properly because of working parents

[Anthea Fraser Gupta]

Like Ron, I despair....

"Morals, language, everything is declining. Things are not what they were when I was young and everything was perfect". People have been saying this FOREVER. Where is the evidence that there are more children now than there once were (in the golden age) who can't talk 'properly' (however this is defined)? 

And of course this is yet another attack on working women ('parents') while we are at it, and ASSUMES that the working class are known to have a problem with learning to talk. And the bit about Bengalis... Nuff said.

Anthea

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Anthea Fraser Gupta (Dr)
School of English, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT
<www.leeds.ac.uk/english/staff/afg>
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Telegraph



Children unable to talk properly because of working parents



Children from middle-class families are not learning to talk properly
because they no longer interact with their working parents, according
to the Government's new 'communication champion'.



Jean Gross, a former education psychologist set to take up the
position next month, claims that because of working parents, children
are subjected to second rate childcare, as well as lose out on
traditional social interaction of family mealtimes and bedtime
stories.



Mrs Gross, who is set to publish research showing how difficulties in
learning to talk are an issue with all social classes, said half of
children in some areas were starting school unable to form sentences
together. In some cases, she says, she has seen native English
speakers struggle as much as "a child who has Bengali as their first
language".



Full story:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/6919174/Children-unable-to-talk-properly-because-of-working-parents.html


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