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When the child learns this
language it has to learn the series of
“ || “numerals
” || ”
“a”, “b”,
“c”, … by heart. – And it
has to learn their use. Will an ostensive teaching of
words
come || enter into
this
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also? – Well,
someone || one
will point at slabs, for instance, and count: “a,
b, c slabs”.
A greater similarity
with the ostensive teaching in example (3) would appear in the
ostensive teaching of numerals when || There would be a
greater similarity between the ostensive teaching in (4) and the
ostensive teaching of numerals if these are not used for
counting but
rather to indicate || refer
to groups of objects
that can be grasped
with || by the eye.
This is the || In this
way children learn the use of the first five or six
cardinal
numbers || numerals.
Are
“there” and “this”
taught || Do we teach “there” and
“this” ostensively? –
Think of || Imagine
how
you || one might teach their
use. You point to places and things;
–
but
here || in this case the
pointing occurs in the
use of the words
as well || also,
and not simply in the
learning || teaching of
it || the use. –