2016职称英语理教材变动及新增文章.docVIP

第二篇 2016年职称英语教材理工类新增文章 Baby Talk Babies normally start to talk when they are 13 t0 15 months old. Ryan Jones is only eightmonths old, but he is already talking with his parents. When lie is hungry, he opens and closes hishand. This means milk. He also knows the signs for his favorite toy and the word more. Ryan is not deaf, and his parents are not deaf, but his mother and father are teaching him toThey say a word and make a sign at the same time. They repeat this again and again. WhenRyans parents think that he will be a happier baby because he can communicate with them.sign 1 Ryan s parents are teaching Ryan to sign because of a man named Joseph Garcia. Although Garcia was not from a deaf family, he decided to learn American Sign Language (ASL). First, he took courses in ASL. Then he got a job helping deafpeople communicate with hearing people. In his work, he saw many deaf parents sign to their communicate much earlier than hearing children use as many as 50 signs. infants. He noticed that these babies were able to 2 When they were one year old, they could Garcia decided to try something new. He taught ASL to parents who were not deaf. The families started to teach signs to their infants when they were six or seven months old. 3 More and more parents took Garcias ASL classes. Like Ryans family, they were excited about signing with their babies. They wanted to give their babies a way to communicate before they could use spoken words. Some people worry about signing to babies. They are afraid that these babies wont feel a need to talk. Maybe they will develop spoken language later than other babies 4 In fact, one study found just the opposite. Signing babies actually learned to speak earlier than other children. As they grow older, these children are more interested in books. They also score higher on intelligence tests There is still a big question for parents: Which are the best signs to teach their babies? Some parents make their own si