More Language results in Better Thinking - Episode 12

This episode is about how language mediates all forms of literacy including thinking, viewing, speaking/signing, listening/watching, reading, writing, and calculating. But what we mean by "more language" refers to the way we assign meaning to our world, not the increase in language structures. For example, a person could tell a child over and over and over the same idea with the same words, but this quantifiably greater number of times told is not the same as saying something 20 different ways. The acquisition of higher levels of thinking necessitates multiple explanations for the same concepts across multiple representations—drawing, writing, telling, talking, and reading. 

Hosts: Dr. Ellyn Arwood, Dr. Bonnie Robb

Music: Pete Sansone

Art: Rey Sangines-Alvarado

Producer: Isaiah Steinberg