Language Development and Cognition

People may ask, “what on earth develops”? As study has shown everything that moves may develop. However, of course there are things that are not living and move not of their own will, because they don’t have one. The concept of development is the orderly and adaptive changes in learners because of experience, learning, and maturation.
Learning contributes to development in general. First off if you couldn’t learn the knowledge that others have attain through out their lives then every individual would create his own world and not develop past the current knowledge. Experience enhances development. For example if a person goes over seas to another country you then can tell me something that they did there, and how you have added it to your life, or changes made to your life. Social interaction promotes development. If we never grew as a people or as an individual in a group, then we would not grow as fast. Development depends on language. First off, I think of the tower of Babel; they took on themselves the confusion of not knowing what the other was saying. As we see today and read in the Bible, that completely stopped the production they already made. Development is continuous and orderly. Individuals develop at different rates. For instance, if I have a particular capacity in my brain that allows me to not learn to write as fast as the students then for sure I will be behind and have to catch up. Or look at Mozart, we see that he had developed his musical abilities far beyond most people, and then his works were shared with the world and now our society as a whole has developed more. Some develop very quickly, others not so much.
Physiology is another main feature in development which also runs along with the personal development. There are 100 million brain cells in the brain and only 1 percent of 1 percent is actually used. So, under focus in the most strenuous problem and learn as much as everything we will still on use 1 percent of our brain capacity. Now to understand a neurons, dendrites, and axons. Where the connections join- we call it synapses.
Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development. When a student begins to learn and wants to learn they will ever be learning. That is why teachers say to never physically punish students, because they will forever more dislike learning and school, and make a choice to never learn. Now many studies have shown that the more you study the more you will remember. Jean mentions another factor called Equilibrium which is being able to explain new experiences by using existing schemes. Also, he emphasizes organization and adaptation. They consist of two things accommodation and assimilation. Accommodation is where schemes are modified to create new ones. It is like when I first came to college I had to adjust to the way things were running. Assimilations are experiences in the environment that incorporated into the schemes. The learning process is indispensible for the scheme.
Dr. Dos Santos-”There comes a point in our development where you will forever hold the accent of your original language after the age of ten or so.”