Learning concept started way back in the 1967 by the work of cognitive psychologist Jerome Bruner. Learning concept is basically how we classify objects, ideas, and events. The reason behind why we do this to “interpret the world by putting objects into categories or concepts, each of which highlights some set of similarities or differences. We then link the things with other concepts in the process validating a certain of inferences.” Adcoring to Paul and Elder. We take everything in our mind once we learn something new about an object, idea or event. The next time we see it we will know the concept of that, and expect what will happen next. For example, we see a bird, we know the concept of that bird because we seen it before. So therefore we will know it could fly away or sing a song. Rather than bark like a dog.
Learning Concept connects with language. We learn the concept of language so we know how to use the right words and the right concept at the right time. “ The process of learning the concepts implicit in a natural language such as English is a process of creating facsimiles of the concepts implicit in the language usage to which we are exposed” quoted by Paul and Elder. Everyday we learn something new, a new concept. Everyone learns a concept in different ways even thought it’s the same idea, object or event. From Concepts we learn language. We can learn words through a dictionary but our mind will change and interpret the words of we will understand and it will “stick in out mind,” Language can also confuse us and create conflicts in our mind.
Learning concept comes from language. “ To take command of our thinking critically, and creatively, requires that we take command of language we use” quoted by Paul and Elder. Our thinking comes from speaking. Our ideas and concepts come from language.
Each word we learn has its own meaning. To learn another word that means almost the same, we have to learn how to weave it in with other meaning. From there, we must create a new concept. In simple terms learning concept and language is not an easy thing to understand.
Yes, this is all true.
ReplyDeleteI like how language is an expression of concept, but you can create concepts with it. The two are very closely related, they cannot exist without each other. The word 'blue' cannot exist without the color. The color cannot exist without language to show the difference to other people.