“Language, Culture, Material Reality, Identity” Article
What it means for literacy development in general, that language has been in someone else’s mouth before it’s been in ours, is that people best learn by imitation. As a baby our parents and others talk to us and around us constantly, then we start trying to imitate them by saying something, then something else, until we are using whole sentences to communicate. Developing literacy’s are easily done by imitating others, because before we even use some words we already know what they mean and how to say them.