| Auditory
/ Visual discrimination |
Learning
to process auditory and visual information so that it can be
understood.
Example:
A non-Chinese–speaking adult arriving in China will not be
able to understand a single word of Chinese. She will get the
impression that the Chinese speak very fast, without pausing.
With time (and Chinese lessons!) she will learn to recognize
individual words and phrases in spoken Chinese. As she
progresses, she will eventually be able to divide the spoken
language in intelligible words and sentences. She is learning
to discriminate the auditory input.
Auditory and visual discrimination is not limited to
language learning. Babies and children are learning to process
all the perceptual information they receive - they are
learning to recognize patterns, colors, shapes and objects,
and to understand sounds as speech, music, animal sounds and
so on. It’s a fundamental process in cognitive development. |
