To be totally annoyed that Waybuloo does not use proper sentance construction.

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There was a thread today on this but it was removed, but it did get me thinking. I just cannot stand the language used on Waybuloo, its not proper sentance construction. My dd likes it but is not fussed if she does not see it, and I would rather her not see tbh. Why cant the BBC make childrens programmes using proper sentance construction and proper English, ITNG is another one too but not as bad as the dreaded Waybuloo.

Looks like it may not be the time to bring back The Clangers, then

You guys are aware this is a really old thread that has been bumped my a spammer/horrid troll!?

That's interesting, mauwmauw, because in her book Toxic Childhood, the author Sue Palmer cites a case where a hearing child of two profoundly deaf adults was exposed to TV very early on specifically so he would pick up the language at the same time as his peers. It didn't work and by the time he was speaking, at three (progress apparently very slow), it happened because by then he'd been exposed to more adults who spoke to him face to face. Same reason why TV directly targetted at very young babies doesn't seem to work, because children don't link speech and the face on the screen together, or little animated speaking characters which have nothing to do with what they've ever seen before make the speech irrelevant, or something like that...I've never read a good thing about TV programmes for babies outside of advertising.
However, it strikes a contrast with the fact that most Dutch/Belgian children are practically fluent in English by their early teens because of dubbed TV...I wonder if it's more about since how long you've watched TV or just the age of the child...probably the latter.
Not a v. well structured post.

There is a world of difference between 'imprinting' which is the necessary interraction of humans face to face as part of language acquisition (cf the cases of kids who don't successfully acquire language through watching TV and not talking to anyone) and 'sound games' which are an integral part of developing language. The latter has been around for as long as nursery rhymes (incey wincey spider; nick, knack, paddywhack etc) and shows such as Teletubbies, Waybuloo etc just use that in a 'modern' way.

Through exposure to the different sounds, rhythms and playing with sounds children are increasing their exposure to language and para-linguistic features such as melody, intonation as well as language specific phoneme groups. Whilst children get exposure to this through their own language games and interraction with others there's also not much harm in 20 mins once a day of it on TV either in my own view.

Re the point about watching TV and fluency in Dutch children etc I think that comes from them having a core basic level of English and then they do begin to 'absorb' more through watching TV. My colloquial German improved massively through watching TV when I moved over there and before I'd settled in and made friends - it's an easy way to pick up language as you have the visual cues to help you get context/sense but you do have to have a core level of understanding for that to work I suspect.

my oh doesn't like the fact that they speak about themselves in the third person, I often wonder is there a reason for this?

I LOVE waybaloo. If my baby wakes in the night and i stick it on iplayer on my iphone she will stop crying and slowly drift back off to sleep for me for another 20 mins or so ....

I also love in the night garden. If she takes a tumble and I sing upsy daisys song it prevents tears every time!

I think the imagination that goes into those two programmes is wonderful, love them, love them.

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