[SPG,Suspected,pattern=3.60]AW: Disney Sales

Cord Wiljes cord at wiljes.de
Fri Apr 23 14:17:09 CEST 2010


I remember a study in which Chinese native speakers read Chinese Texts to
very young (<1y) children. Later in life the children were able to speak
Chinese sounds which were not part of their own language, even though they
never learned Chinese. When the same experiment was repeated with records
instead of human readers no effect was found. So the human interaction
(emotion!) seems to be absolutely essential for motivation and learning even
(or especially) at this young age.
 
I have repeatedly heard from adults who had never read comic books in their
own childhood that they had serious problems reading comics now because they
did not know where to start or how to preceed. They had not learned the
"language" of comics at an early age.
 
I believe comics are very good source of reading material for children
because they have pictures which is very important, the feature recognizable
characters, and they have the appeal of "not just for kids" which marks most
great childrens' books. I have read Donald Duck and Asterix to the children
of friends and they liked it very much. And once the children start learning
to read you can alternate: The adult reads the first panel and the child the
second one.
 
I also noticed how much children, even at the youngest age, recognize and
appreciate quality. Not only do they instinctively prefer Barks' stories
over others' but they even know which Barks stories they like best. They are
very good critics.
 
Cord  
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