Scribd
Upload
18 views8 pages

Language Development

Children develop language in stages from babbling to single words to simple sentences and finally complex sentences as adults by school age. Language acquisition involves learning sounds, meanings, and grammar rules through innate language acquisition devices and social learning from imitation and conditioning. There are critical periods in early childhood when language components are most easily acquired before abilities decline after age 4-12.

Uploaded by

Sylvaen Wsw
Copyright
© Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PPT, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
18 views8 pages

Language Development

Children develop language in stages from babbling to single words to simple sentences and finally complex sentences as adults by school age. Language acquisition involves learning sounds, meanings, and grammar rules through innate language acquisition devices and social learning from imitation and conditioning. There are critical periods in early childhood when language components are most easily acquired before abilities decline after age 4-12.

Uploaded by

Sylvaen Wsw
Copyright
© Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PPT, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 8

LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

Language Development
Allows children to think in words rather than images, to ask questions, communicate their needs and wants to others and to form concepts

Views of language
Early view Skinnerian principles of reinforcement Social learning view operant conditioning and imitation Noam Chomsky proposed a language acquisition device (LAD) an innate program that contain a schema for human language. The children match the language they hear against this schema and, thus, language is developed

Language acquisition
Involves: Phonological development - learning to produce sounds of words Semantic development - learning to understand the meanings of words Acquisition of grammar - the rules through which words can be combined into sentences in a given language

Stages of language development


1) Cooing: around 2 months; vowel like sounds 2) Babbling: around 6 months, adding consonant sounds to the vowels to make babbling sound, which at times can almost sound like real speech

Stages of Language development


3) One-word speech: just before or around 1 yr, most children begin to say actual words. Typically nouns and may seem to represent an entire phrase of meaning (holophrases). E.g. Milk! 4) Telegraphic speech: around a year and a half, toddlers being to string words together to form short simple sentences using nouns, verbs and adjectives. Mummy go

Stages of Language development


5) Whole sentences: Moving through preschool years, they learn to use grammatical terms and increase words in their sentences. By age 6 or so, nearly as fluent as an adult although the number of words they know is still limited when compared to adult vocabulary.

Critical Periods
Suggestion of a critical period for language development during which children find it easiest to acquire various language components. Ends somewhere between 4 and 12 The Case of Genie

You might also like