Language First Learning Library

Course description: This presentation focuses on the two types of language learning: implicit and explicit. It demonstrates that implicit learning must occur during the early stages of language development for deaf and hard of hearing children otherwise, neuropathways in the brain will not develop properly for healthy overall development. Furthermore, the workshop demonstrates that language during the critical stage of development must be delivered with full access, with ease, and naturally while explicitly taught language must remain minimal during the critical stage of language development.

Agenda:

5 minutes: Introduction and general information

10 minutes: Define explicit and implicit language learning

10 minutes: Identify explicit and implicit language learning environments

20 minutes: Understand the importance of implicit language learning in the early years

15 minutes: Understand the impact of not learning a language implicitly

25 minutes: Understanding the importance of brain plasticity and neural pathway development at a younger age

10 minutes: Understand executive functioning skills and how implicit language learning is important for EF skills

25 minutes: Learn how to implement explicit and implicit language learning environments and the importance of how explicit language learning must become implicitly practiced

Learner outcomes:

Participants will be able to:

1. Define explicit and implicit language learning
2. Identify explicit and implicit language learning environments
3. Explain the impact of not learning a language implicitly in the early years
4. Explain how implicit language learning is essential for EF skills