A short YouTube clip in which Ming (Agents of Speech) argues that unsupervised video watching leads children to learn vocabulary (letters, numbers, animal names, shapes) but not how to use language interactively; she suggests lack of supervision prevents development of practical communicative skills.
Foreign. The main problem with watching videos on the Internet is that they don't know how to use the language that they learned. So that's why you can see children who are saying, A, B, C, D, E, F, G. All those like, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. And then all the animal names, like shapes and numbers, whatever. They don't know how to use it. They don't know how to interact. The problem is that we leave them to watch it without supervision.
