2018年托福写作素材：童年期是否重要

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OG277页133题儿童期是否是一生最重要的时期

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

A person’s childhood years (the time from birth to twelve years of age) are the most important years of a person’s life.

分析：

童年重要与否?这个问题必须界定在哪些领域重要与否。而且考生必须回答为什么重要还是不重要。这就要考生首先思考一个人一生中重要的是什么?

教学方法：

请所有人思考并且回答这个问题，然后大家汇总。筛选大家共同认可的十个答案，分成小组，每组7人，每组讨论一个话题，给出具体的理由。选出每组代表做presentation，要求其他组员进行反驳。

学生回答关于人生中最重要的事情：

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每个小组写出一个能力和童年关系的段落，然后各个小组循环阅读其它小组的答卷，并且提出建议和修改。

课堂现场写作文章：

声明：本文是现场写作，未经校改，表达不当疏漏之处，如承蒙斧正不胜感激。

Childhood build the very foundation of an individual development. Although many theorists emphasize the importance of environs, family background, and community atmosphere to which an individual is exposure during the adolescence period, childhood times have been figuratively described by such neurologist as Freud as the seeds in which all genes are ingrained or embedded. Environs are the soil in which the seed grows. Mark Twain, the greatest American novelist, is said to write in Vienna of images that he began storing at age four. The childhood sunny delights naturally shaped Mark Twain’s metaphor. The Mississippi river, the boat, the prairie, the woods in autumn dress, the motionless hanging hawk in the sky, the oaks, and the rustles of the fallen leaves in his childhood all created the novels and thus the novelist, whom the course of human events has never ever had before and the one who will be able to match him in the talent of writing has not yet loomed. Perhaps the unique childhood cannot be duplicated.

Childhood time lists itself at the top of importance to personal development because it is in the childhood that human beings form the rudimentary language skills that develop in the course of growing into one of the most important abilities to live and learn. Child behavior researchers claim that at the age of about two years old human beings begin to speak, and this is the very start point of childhood. In the following five years child language ability grows at a tremendous speed. At seven years old, children have already had the basic language skills in presentation, discourse, and self-expression. In a certain sense, at the childhood time, human beings foster or forge the verbal communication competence. In fact, many linguists also claim that childhood is the best time to learn a foreign language.

Childhood is the most important period also because during this period children shape the competence to observe and perceive natural and society. The ability to perceive is the first step for human beings to learn or cognize. Language follows. Childhood time also implants the personality, characteristics, and interest, although all of these possibly yield to the changes and challenges in the post-childhood environment.

In fact, the importance of childhood time to the development of an individual human being has not yet fully unfolded. If we study this topic with insights and details, the restriction of 250 words in an essay seems to be too narrow.

作为同学参考，课后给出译文如下。本人在此声明，因为写作过程是先有英文思考，表达，后来才有汉语翻译。所以汉语译文难免有些生硬之处。加之本人汉语功力浅薄，有贻笑大方之处，敬请海涵。

译文：

童年时期奠定了个体成长的核心基础。虽然不少理论家强调一个人在青春期所体验的环境，氛围，家境的重要性，但是诸如弗洛伊德之流的精神分析学家则把童年时期比喻为具备所有发展基因的“种子”。而环境不过是这种子生长的土壤而已。美洲文豪马克吐温据说是在维也纳书写自己四岁以后积淀和记忆的视觉图像。他童年时期的欢愉毫无疑问塑造了他的言辞和隐喻。童年期那流动的密西西比河水，蒸汽船，草原，披上秋装的丛林，悬在天上静静的苍鹰，橡树，唏嗦的落叶，所有这一切都成就了马克吐温的小说和马克吐温这个小说家。该小说家，就其文学造诣而言，在北美乃至所有人类文明中，可谓前不见古人后不见来者。大抵因为其童年经历不可复制尔。

童年期列为人生重要名单之榜首，大抵因为人类基础的语言技能是在童年时期初具雏形，而后在成长的过程中发展为学习生活最为重要的一项技能。儿童行为研究人士宣称说在两岁左右孩童开始学习说话，而这个时期就是儿童期之肇始。在之后的五年中，语言能力迅速发展，及至于七岁，儿童已经能够用基本的语言进行陈述，讨论，和自我表述。在某种意义上，在童年期，人类形成了词语能力， 实际上语言学家认为儿童期也是习得外语能力的最佳时期。

儿童时期之所以被认为是最重要的还因为在这个时期儿童形成了观察自然和认知社会的能力。这个能力是认知学习的第  一步，语言能力继之而来。儿童期还为人格，性格，志趣的形成埋下伏笔，虽然这些会因今后的环境变迁而有所迁移。

实际上，儿童期重要性尚未完全展示，如果更加细腻深入地研究该问题，一篇250字为限的小文似乎篇幅不殆。

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