Wild and isolated children and critical age issue in language learning.

 By:

Rizqy Kurniasari (12331702)Liyananda Nur Cholifah (12331695)

Definition of wild isolated child

# FERAL means wild or undomesticated.# A human child who has lived without human contact from a very young age, and has no experience of human care , of loving or social behavior, of human language .# Several accounts of children raised by wild animals (found living in the woods).

Definition of critical age issue

# May have had human contact but were so deprived of interaction that they did not become socialized.# Most do not learn language and have trouble with basic motor skills.# Hard to definitively study due to have nature of child rearing (or lack thereof.)

The factors governing language learning

The age at which exposure to language began.

The extent of any physical, psychological, and social trauma prior to exposure to language.

The case or wild and isolated children and critical age issue in language learning

Oxana Malaya : The Ukrainian Dog Girl

When first found in 1991 she could hardly speak. In 2006 at the age of 23, Oxana Malaya still resides at a home for the mentally handicapped, the Baraboy Clinic in Odessa, where she helps look after the cows in the clinic’s farm.

Oxana Malaya : The Ukrainian Dog Girl in language learning

Last reported 2 years back, she was living in a home for the mentally ill where her speech has improved though had difficulties in

relating to people.

Her doctor, Vladimir Nagorny, stated that her development seem to came to a limit and though they have been trying to find her a job, she will never be considered as a normal person.

Sujit Kumar: raised with chickens in Fiji.

In  April  of  1976,  Sujit  Kumar’s  mother  committed suicide.  His  elderly  grandfather,  not  knowing  how  to care for him, confined him to a chicken coop. Sujit was found one night in 1979 by the side of a road pecking for food. He was taken to the Samubala Old  People’sHome in Suva  where  because  of  his  disruptive  and  violent behavior he was frequently tied to a bed. This occurred for 22 years before Sujit was put into therapy. 

A sister in home said: “ Sujit would mostly hop around like a chicken , peck at his food, perch like a chicken and make noises like a chicken., “ she said .”He would prefer to roost on the floor to go to sleep rather than sleep in a bed.”

Sujit Kumar: raised with chickens in Fiji in language learning.

However, and the start of 2003 a visitor to the home initiated a rehabilitation program. Altogh he still can not speak, he is now learning human behaviour and the ability to communicate.

VICTOR

A wild boy captured in the woods near the village of Lacaune, France, in 1797. The boy was taken by his captors (local peasants), kicking and struggling, to be displayed in the village square. The wild boy managed to escape, but a year later (1798) he was caught again in the vicinity of Lacaune by three hunters as he was climbing a tree. He was then taken to a local widow's house, who fed and clothed him for a week.

VICTOR IN LANGUAGE LEARNING

GenieIn 1970 a child called Genie was admitted to a children’s hospital in Los Angeles. She was 13 years old and had spent most of her life tied to a chair in a small closed room. Her father was intolerant of any kind of noise and had beaten the child whenever she made a sound. There had been no radio or television, and Genie only other human correct was with her mother who was forbidden to spend more than a few minutes with the child to feed her. Genie had spent her whole life in state of physical, sensory, social and emotional deprivation.

GENIE IN LANGUAGE TEACHING

Hellen Keller

Helen Adams Keller was born a healthy child in Tuscumbia, Alabama, on June 27, 1880. Her parents were Kate Adams Keller and Colonel Arthur Keller. At the age of 19 months, Helen became deaf and blind as a result of an unknown illness, perhaps rubella or scarlet fever. As Helen grew from infancy into childhood, she became wild and unruly.

1. At the age of 7

introduced to S\Anne Sulivan

Macy

3. Helen learned via touching speech articulators and even learned to

speak,

6. Graduated from Radcliff and became an acclaimed lecturer and writer in service of handicapped people.

2. Macy’s effort to teach language

via touching senses succeeded

5. speech learned to read and

produce Braille

4. able to produce somewhat strange

CONCLUSSIONAny relationship between Wild and isolated children and

critical age issues for language learning. For the example is Hellen Keller At the age of 7 introduced

to Anne Sulivan Macy, Macy’s effort to teach language via touching senses succeeded, Helen learned via touching speech articulators and even learned to speak, able to produce somewhat strange speech learned to read and produce Braille and graduated from Radcliff and became an acclaimed lecturer and writer in service of handicapped people.

It affected by sone factors there are: Age of expossure and enxtent of any physical, psychological and social trauma prior expossure.