Television is rapidly becoming the literature of our periods. 1. ____ time/period Many of the arguments having used for the study of literature 2. ____ as a school subject are valid for ∧ study of television. 3. ____
the Language learning begins with listening. Individual children vary greatly in the amount of listening they do after 62. ________ they start speaking, and late starters are often long listeners. Most children will "obey" spoken instructions some time before they can speak, though the word obey is hardly accurate like a description of the eager and delighted 63. ________ cooperation usually shown by the child. Before they can speak, many children will ask questions in gesture and by 64. ________ making questioning noises. Any attempt to trace the development from the noises babies make to their first spoken words lead to considerable difficulties. It is agreed 65. ________ they enjoy making noises, and that during the first 66. ________ few months one or two noise sort themselves out as 67. ________ particular indicative of delight, distress, sociability, and so 68. ________ on. But since these can be said to show the baby's intention to 69. ________ communicate, they can hardly be regarded as early forms of language. It is agreed, too, that from about three months they play with sounds for enjoyment, and that by six months they are able to add new sounds to their repertoire. This self-imitation leads on to deliberate imitation of sounds making or words spoken to them by other people. The 70. ________ problem then arises as to the point which one can say that 71. ________ these imitations can be considered as speech.
