To begin with, language is the main mode of communication that human beings use to express themselves. Human beings rely on their fellow partners to take them through a learning process where a certain language has to be used in the deliverance and assimilation of knowledge. In this process, language comes in handy in assisting learning where it helps individuals to be in a position to group the various learned experiences into certain categories for teaching purposes.
Womack expressed that human beings are able to release their thoughts to their fellow colleagues through language which therefore assists their colleagues to learn the various cultural aspects (79). All through the various stages of development, human beings encounter different levels of learning. During the training, the trainers must portray special masterly of a certain language to help the trainees to master the skills too. It is for this reason that we consider language as an important way of assisting learning.
Phillip commented that, children at their very early age obtain knowledge through nonlinguistic methods which are not organized and may include symbols, signs or even sound (117). Children therefore need language to be in a position to interpret these various experiences as they develop.
They will need to know how to view issues differently, how to encode the information given and must also be able to put things in the right sequence. At this stage language makes growing children open minded, creative and assist them in communicating. During their communication, children will rely on language to attain their knowledge and enrich their cognitive abilities. All these are forms of learning which rely heavily on language and can not be ignored.
Swason extensively discussed how human beings attribute and obtain their culture from the various environments they live in and interact with, and how human beings are able to learn and appreciate their cultures through language (164). At youth stage a lot of socialization and expressions depend on language masterly so as to learn what your colleagues appreciates and be able to interact freely.
At a later stage in life various other ways in which language assists learning come up to help human beings to survive or be in a position to enlarge their powers and knowledge. Language is very vital in helping human beings learn various cultural values of the communities they live in and be able to interact with the members of the community both locally and the universe.
Steven observed that human beings are able to enrich and upgrade their cultures as well as empower their knowledge through language (117). These two factors form some of the major issues which individuals have always wanted to discover in greater depth through learning. Scholars endeavor to learn various languages so as to be well place in interacting with people from different cultures.
This therefore help to improve their adaptability process for the purposes of studying that culture. It is evident that human beings keep tracking other people who are in distant countries in a passion to learn their culture and more so to compare it with their own. Language in this point plays a major rule in breaking the barrier in cultural and social studies.
In conclusion, language is an important factor in learning for one is better positioned to attain greater heights in learning through greater enrichment of language. All stages of life require certain language masterly so as to achieve the various cultural requirements in those stages. Starting from young age, language help children to interpret the information they receive from their guardians so as to learn new things. Later in life language help in learning cultural ways of living and finally people reach out for greater knowledge of the universe through masterly of various languages.
Work Cited
Phillip, Clifton. Mirror for Humanity. Harvard: Harvard University Press, 2002.
Steven, Brown. Human Challenge: Cultural Anthropology.New York: Viking, 1998.
Swason Heller. Anthropology: Introduction to Missiology. New York: Allworth Press, 1999.
Womack, Mari. Being Human: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology. 2nd ed. Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, 2001.