Annusmirabilis·Style

Koogle的生日Party

昨天，Koogle同學提前宴請大家慶生，地點還是老地方，首師大附近的龍騰軒。318宿舍的除了coco外的五個人全部到場，320的來了我和志爺，還有就是小白和老李了。記得一年前為Koogle慶祝生日的時候也是在這個地方，但是是兩桌人，有男有女，談笑風生的。轉眼之間一年過去，大家都變得忙了許多，也蒼老了許多。

席間他們談起儅老師的經歷，大部分人都唏噓不已。老師累，老師苦，每天起早貪黑的，受學校的壓榨和家長的埋怨。只有Koogle一個人沒談到自己儅老師的一些事情，如果有的話，也是隻言片語，主題則是他手下那些小豆子的樂事。我覺得一個人生存在一種環境中，既來之，則安之。安心工作，以圖發展就得了。我、阿呆和Nickle似的，在一個目前很窘迫的公司，辦公室沒有窗戶，不見日光，沒有暖氣，冬天肯定要凍死。但是即便是在如此惡劣的條件下，無論公司將來會如何，我們總是覺得會學到些東西，會長大很多。如此就夠了。發展是人和環境的函數。這句話説得很對。

Koogle迎來了二零年華的最後一年。所謂安居樂業，目前Koogle算是“樂業”了，也會有所發展的，但是“安居”這一條還要抓緊啊！祝Koogle同學生日快樂。

下面是一些照片，把壽星Koogle同學放在第一個。

下面這張是博主的猥瑣自排：

下面來張全家福：

PS：本人相冊正式開通。可以在鏈接中“查看我的照片”即可觀看。方便快捷啊。

PS：今天晚些時候，珍珍要TOEFL。祝一切順利，馬到成功！

PS：昨晚上回家，發現電腦的輸入法沒了，而且中了病毒，被迫無奈之下格了機子。所以blog發晚了。

Ideas on Child Language

Jean Stilwell Peccei in her famous work Child Language introduced us a vivid picture of how children acquired their mother tongue perfectly within five years or so. 

Since every language is a unique and rather complex symbol system, such a quick mastery is definitely an astonishing, interesting yet confusing phenomenon. Pros and experts has carried out thousands of experiments and figured out lots of great theories, among which those of Skinner, Chomsky and Piaget are the most renowned ones. Peccei’s Child Language is based on their theories and is trying to tell us every detailed fact of children acquiring their mother language in every aspect ranging from labelling items, producing sounds to making adult conversations. 

The recent research proves that children do not learn their language by imitating their parents, nor do they have a set of inborn systematic rules of language, they acquire their language by looking, listening and testing through thousands of mistakes and failures. The greatest value of this is that children play an active role in their language acquisition. Therefore rather than your teaching your kids they learn themselves. 

As it is proved, there are many phases of children acquiring a language, the first of which is the one-word period. In this period (around one month old), babies tend to use one word to express themselves. In most cases their word is labelling things, but sometime they also try to convey more complicated meaning by one simple word, for example a baby pointing a plate of biscuit said, ‘biscuit,’ through this it was trying to tell its mother that it wanted a piece of biscuit. 

The author then talks about how kids understand the meaning of a word. It is largely because of the mistakes of underextension and overextension. Mistakes is a special way that help children grow up and learn more and more about the world. A kid may firstly indicate all animals with four feet crawling on the ground as cats, but when he gets the word dog, he understands the differences between cats and dogs. His understanding towards the world thus improved.  

It is observed that the first 50 words a child acquires are mainly nouns and verbs that cause something to move. But when they grow older, they are ready for something more difficult than that. They learn comparable adjectives. Although it seems easy to adult, it is quite a challenge to kids. They shall understand that a tall boy may be still shorter than a short adult. That is, something is relatively tall, long or old, and it is only a matter of comparison. 

When kids equipped themselves with enough words, they entered the two word stage of their language acquisition. There are several kinds of word combination of their two word sentences; this is obvious evidence that kids are developing their awareness of the semantic role of a certain word. They begin to understand that different meaning elements could be combined together to produce the overall meaning of a sentence. 

Experts tend to use the length of kids’ sentences to describe their language development. I personally believe it is partially because that the complicacy of English language is closely related to its length. Whatever, when kids get older and older, they use more words in their sentences, and they gradually aware the grammatical role of the words they apply in their sentences. That helps them use correct cases and tenses in their conversation. Of course they make lots of mistakes. But this is strong evidence that they are testing their sentences and they are trying to decode the mysterious regulations of English language by themselves. 

Children then learn to answer yes/no question and to use auxiliary verbs, and that help them to understand and answer WH questions. And then kids use several ways to make words. And finally they start real conversation.  

This is how children get their language semantically. But in the meantime, they still have to learn speaking their language out. Articulations are tricky. Sometime it is very difficult for a kid. So children automatically omit something in their pronunciation. This omission helps them make the pronunciation easier to fetch. They have lots of other ways to reduce the complicacy. But their mistakes and failure in communication will tell them which is acceptable and which is not. 

This is of course a very brief summary of the book and the technical part is not the most important thing in this matter. The most important thing is, kids will acquire their language themselves. They learn from errors and they grow from failures. So have some faith with your child, they will manage all.  

It shall be noticed that this is a book concerning child language as native language. Is it all true when applying to kids learning English as a second language? Is it all true when applying to kids with a multilingual background? Further studies are still needed.  

新址·回歸·新的生活

   MSN Space最近用得很有些不爽，不僅所有其他朋友的space不能正常打開，連自己的也有毛病。所以決定回歸blogbus。這個blog已經有很長時間沒有更新了，回來之前把所有的這裡的文章都讀了一遍，發現果然工作后自己變了很多，長大了很多。這個具體的以後慢慢再説吧。公司搬家了，從天堂般的中服商務酒店搬到了鳥不拉屎的楓花園汽車影城。具體的情況，在space上已經詳細介紹過了。不過通過最近幾天的工作，對那裏的環境有了點新的認識。覺得只要用心去體會，去發現，總是能發現讓人心悅神怡的景色。先說說辦公桌吧。Rachael照顧我，特意從特別safe和cozy的角落搬出來，坐在她的對面。照照片的時候我還沒有怎麽收拾，桌面上略顯空曠。不過，現在已經好了，我用東西填滿了我的桌子，果然緊湊的桌面能帶來更好的工作效率啊。

   由於是剛剛搬過去，所以目前既沒有電話也沒有網絡。工作起來就變得非常無聊。不過正式拜這種條件所賜，我才在兩天之内完成了Teacher Training Manual的寫作。不過這些天也沒有機會把工作成果上交給Rachael。看來只能是週一了。也希望webmaster大哥能快快的把網接好。這是一張他的機房。

   所謂搬家的最初目的是覺得離我們的KindyROO比較近，可以供我們參與教研，主要就是聼聽課什麽的。今天本來聼了Domingo關於KindyROO Neurology課程的介紹，覺得很有意思。原來帶小孩就跟逗小貓一樣。以後大家怎麽逗貓，怎麽帶孩子就行了，高科技啊！聽課這件事後來被Linda發現了，我們比較偏向研究的人挨了罵……下面是幾張KindyROO的照片。

這張是汽車影院的招牌，我的翻譯是：Peking Maple Garden Drive-In Cinema。另一張是C號屏幕。

   這張是從公司對面的一個餐館的露天茶座上排的。它告訴我們，生活是一種態度，美與丑只是角度問題。

   樹林裏面有很多野貓，只要喂點食，撫摸撫摸就會很配合。不過可憐的Jenny同學被貌似可愛的小貓抓破了，當日就急匆匆地請了兩個小時价去打狂犬病疫苗。

   下面這兩張實在不知道到底是鵝，還是鴨子，或者一張是鵝，另一張是鴨子。

   我們公司的那片地方，越到晚上越繁榮。於是湧現了很多夜店。如下圖：

   還有些稀罕車，就事兒也發了看看。

   每天下班的時候是最美的時候，無論是天空還是心情……

   不管怎樣，公司已經搬到那裏，以後就在那裏奮鬥了。不管怎樣，blog已經復活，以後就會到這裡奮鬥了。明天5點10起床，開始學駕駛朮。沒有休息的生活，正式開始！奮鬥！ 

PS：今天傍晚，Linda打來電話説明天加班。我是去不了了，星期一等死了……

PS：十一簡短彙報：基本是在逛。798，Shin Kong Palace，The Place，IKEA都去遍了，也見到了幾乎永遠都沒有消息的李若文同學。但就是沒能和珍珍玩一天。殘念！

PS：昨天是珍珍生日，度過了一個愉快的夜晚。

通告

本blog已於2006年6月19日星期一開始，正式更改地址。新的地址如下：http://annusmirabilis.spaces.msn.com/。

兩本書

到目前爲止，我的人生就像是兩本書。

前一本叫做《理想囯》；

后一本叫做《悲慘世界》。

PS: 前些日子買到了《柯南》單行本第53集。這一集青山剛昌是被一個巨大的釘子釘死的，覺得很不可思議。本集的偵探叫做本禪寺秋彥，不僅是個偵探還是個陰陽師，真讓人羡慕。這一集還用很短的篇幅介紹了10部柯南劇場版。在這10部當中，我最喜歡的三部是《世紀末的魔術師》（劇場版第三部，1997年公映）、《引爆摩天樓》（劇場版開篇之作，1987年公映）和《通往天國的倒數計時》（劇場版第五部，2001年公映）。

六月二日

六月二日，是散夥飯的日子。我們其實很不情願的都聚在了本部的金百萬，享受我們在大學時代的最後一餐。三位同窗因爲工作的關係沒有能夠出席，其餘的人都來了，都盡興了，也包括我。我醉了，第二次醉了。我失態了，第二次失態了。不過還是很高興，因爲這些年來想對大家說卻沒說出來的話，終于說了出來。我不承認我喝多了跟王志一樣，會變成一個很幽默的人，但是後來打電話的時候，敏敏說我喝多了確實在判斷力和邏輯思維能力上都有很大進步……或許我應該在高考或者是研考之前也和上個一斤半斤的……

題外話不多說了，言歸正傳。這四年來大家相處得很和諧，一直相敬如賓。由於大家住得比較遠，男生在北區，女生在本部，所以覺得其實沒什麽話説。但是直到2號的散夥飯，我才發現其實不是無話可説，是因爲覺得今後縂有更好的説話的機會，所以才沒有說，再或者是因爲覺得即便不說出現了誤會，也會有很充裕的時間來消除，所以才在某些時候用一個微笑或一聲嘆息結束尚未開始對話。可是2號這天不一樣了，不說沒機會了，大家各有前程，各奔東西，茫茫人海，恐再不能團聚了，彼時心情，如有切膚之痛，所以忘記了那些讓人慾言又止的種種所謂原因，準備開始說。可是真張開口，卻真不知道怎麽把思念的感情，對每一個人的感情都說得淋漓盡致。所以索性言貴精簡，就一句話，我愛你們。我真的愛這些與我同窗而習的夥伴朋友，我永遠也忘記不了那些名字，四年來那些笑臉，那些眼淚決不會在我腦中變得有任何一點模糊不清。因爲，四年來他們給我的愛如蘭熏桂馥，歷久彌新。

昨天肖博陽哭了，王志哭了，在場的女生都哭了。大家都是性情中人，大家都長大了，知道盛宴難延，知道終有一刻大家會四散而去。相見時難別亦難，東風無力百花殘。緣既然讓我們相聚，命又爲什麽讓我們分開？

我不會忘記六月二日這一天。一生中第二次喝醉酒的日子。我們離別的日子。我們坦誠的相互面對的日子。我不會忘記我們的約定，每年的六月二日，我們相聚在一起，繼續我們不解情緣！

PS：想起前些日子的一首詩，那個時候有些人問我是什麽意思，我覺得現在他們應該明白了。（如果還不能明白的話，就乾脆在地上找條縫兒，讓我鉆進去算了！）

夜靜庸人醒，窗明硯墨輕。

三春皆暢笑，此度顧別情。

Take a Bow

麥儅娜很少有這樣的歌，我覺得這首歌從很多方面符合現在的心情。你曾經爲了某些東西付出了許多許多，如今才發現，一切美好的設想不過是南柯一夢，過眼雲煙。曾有的那些美好的日子漸行漸遠，一去不返。心中有些傷感，有些感慨。但是，對所有已經失去的、正在失去的和即將失去的，我無能爲力。也許只能把過去所有的一切當成是一場化妝舞會，我們在舞會上盡情表演着自己。如今，我在臺上謝幕，看着燈光漸暗，帷幕降落，雖然不願將面具摘去，但也只能在心裏說：the show is over, say goodbye.

Take a bow, the night is over

This masquerade is getting older

Light are low, the curtains down

There’s no one here

[There’s no one here, there’s no one in the crowd]

Say your lines but do you feel them

Do you mean what you say

when there’s no one around [no one around]

Watching you, watching me, one lonely star

[One lonely star you don’t know who you are]

I’ve always been in love with you [always with you]

I guess you’ve always known it’s true [you know it’s true]

You took my love for granted, why oh why

The show is over, say good-bye

Say good-bye, say good-bye

Make them laugh, it comes so easy

When you get to the part

Where you’re breaking my heart [breaking my heart]

Hide behind your smile, all the world loves a clown

[Just make’em smile the whole world loves a clown]

Wish you well, I cannot stay

You deserve an award

for the role that you played [role that you played]

No more masquerade, you’re one lonely star

[One lonely star and you don’t know who you are]

I’ve always been in love with you [always with you]

I guess you’ve always known it’s true [you know it’s true]

You took my love for granted, why oh why

The show is over, say good-bye

I’ve always been in love with you [always with you]

I guess you’ve always known it’s true [you know it’s true]

You took my love for granted, why oh why

The show is over, say good-bye

Say good-bye, say good-bye

All the world is a stage [world is a stage]

And everyone has their part [has their part]

But how was I to know which way the story’d go

How was I to know you’d break

[You’d break, you’d break, you’d break]

You’d break my heart

I’ve always been in love with you

[I’ve always been in love with you]

Guess you’ve always known

You took my love for granted, why oh why

The show is over, say good-bye

I’ve always been in love with you [always with you]

I guess you’ve always known it’s true [you know it’s true]

You took my love for granted, why oh why

The show is over, say good-bye

Say good-bye, say good-bye

Say good-bye