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Two very interesting pieces to consider about how language shapes and affects the way we live and who we are. Well, these pieces make it REALLY interesting. I think there are implications here for how we think about teaching, as well as a potentially good text during a language study.
Does Your Language Shape How You Think?
BY GUY DEUTSCHER
The idea that your mother tongue shapes your experience of the world may be true after all.
August 9, 2010
It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without words. But in this hour of Radiolab, we try to do just that. We speak to a woman who taught a 27-year-old man the first words of his life, and we hear a firsthand account of what it feels like to have the language center of your brain wiped out by a stroke. Plus: a group of children invent an entirely new language in Nicaragua in the 1970s.
Read more. And watch the episode’s companion
film from Will Hoffman and Daniel Mercadante.
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