Although it has potential for good, Television is now the Evil Empire against Language Development.
Unfortunately, television is like a visual cocaine, which provides effortless and instant gratification.
It is the Evil Empire because it quickly becomes strongly addictive and will seriously erode a child's desire to engage in the more mentally strenuous and beneficial activity of reading or being read to.
If you want a child with good language skills, put the TV in your closet!
5 Language Development through Verbal Instruction: Parents, teachers and books constantly provide new vocabulary and concepts though verbal explanation.
For example they tell us that atoms are made up of electrons, neutrons and protons etc.
These five processes, then develop the symbol/referent bonds. But there are actually two types of bonds that can result: Connotative and Denotative bonds.