Early childhood education language development is one of the core foundations of
positive healthy development in regards to children's developmental domains. Being a major
developmental domain it is part of PILES, which is the umbrella term that covers physical,
intelligence, language, emotional, and social development for young children. “Children learn
speech and language through listening, watching, exploring, copying, initiating, responding,
playing and interacting with others. For those first few years most of the important interaction is
going to be between the child and their parents, carers and maybe siblings (Aussie Deaf Kids,
2015).” Creating the ideal learning environment for children when trying to foster positive
language development is extremely important when trying to get children to the level they should
be at in terms of their speech development. The environment that you create in your classroom
influences your students' learning, their overall mood, as well as their behavior patterns so it is
very crucial that you think about how and what it is that you are trying to communicate to your
children when setting it up for those important first days of school. It is why I personally would
try to create an environment that incorporates everyday objects and scenarios children may come
across. I will put an emphasis on the dramatic play areas and try to ensure that everything is
appropriately labeled. So children can be able to associate specific letters with certain objects.
One example being that if there's a stove in the kitchen I will have a label that says stove, one
that would be colorful and engaging that children would gravitate towards.
I will also make sure to provide pictures of other objects that we may not be able to have
in the classroom for that children can still see them throughout the day as well as see the letters
and sounds that involve those objects, such as pictures of cars balloons or even household
animals such as cats, dogs, or fish. Children like animals and things relating to cars and planes,
