A new study has found that young babies learning languages through video materials do better with other babies around than they do alone. The study confirms earlier studies that found a child’s learning can be greatly improved when it happens together with another child.
In the new study, researchers wanted to look at the effect of using video material in language learning for very young children. Past research has shown that a young child’s learning level using video is very low compared to language spoken by humans.
One of the earlier studies measured the progress of 9-month-old children who listened to Mandarin Chinese during a series of visits to a learning laboratory. The children heard the language presented in three different ways. Some listened to a person speaking. Others watched a video. A third group listened to an audio. The study measured the ability of the children to recognize differences in Mandarin speech sounds that they heard.
In the new study, researchers wanted to see if language learning through video would be improved if the child went through the process with another child instead of by themselves. Some 9-month-old children listened to Mandarin-language videos. This time, the children were permitted to interact with a video screen.
The children could touch different parts of the screen to control the video they saw. The researchers noted that the babies were “quick to learn” by touching the screen. In addition, the study found that putting the children together with new, unfamiliar partners led to even higher learning results. The study shows the importance of working with a social partner to improve language learning. Working with others—even at such a young age—leads to increased learning.
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