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The Pause that Teaches
November 23, 2015
Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
-Chinese proverb
-Chinese proverb
"Uhs" and "ums" that fill pauses when adults speak to toddlers may actually aid the toddlers in expanding their vocabularies. Celeste Kidd and other researchers at the University of Rochester found that such pauses often occur before adults use a word that is infrequent or unfamiliar in their speech or prior to using a word for the first time in a conversation. In their research, reported in Developmental Science, Kidd found that when such a pause occurred, the toddlers paid significantly more attention to the unfamiliar for the next two seconds.
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Displaying All 2 CommentsKeansburg Public Schools
Keansburg, New Jersey, United States
EDUCATION is the KEY to SUCCESS.
Aldea Montessori School
Phoenix, AZ, United States
This is an interesting study and it makes sense. However, surely no one is suggesting that we "learn" to insert "ums" in our conversations? Rather, that we learn to pause before we say something new, different, more complex. It would be stilted and strange to add verbal pauses where they are not logical and I worry that others will take that away as the message of this Exchange.
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