Basic Language Skills and Language Acquisition and Development

Yesterday, I went to the mall and I have observed few babies in the children center, and I saw the babies mostly talked out the right side more than the left side. Before I went to the mall, I predicted babies will move the mouth of right side more than

The development and acquisition of language skills in a child’s early years is critical to his/her development (Otto & Otto, 2013). During a child’s first five years of life the brain goes through a sensitive period in regards to language development, making many synapses and connections that leads to

5. Describe the development of spoken language during the first two years of life. Isn’t it amazing that a baby starts to learn language before birth? Newborns are actively developing language skills, yet they cannot talk fluently at the very beginning. Adults are unintentionally communicating with babies in a different way than they talk to other adults. People tend to talk to babies using simple and repetitive words, and exaggerated tones. This term is being called as child-directed speech. We can always see an adult talks to baby in this way. For instance, parents tell the kid “you are great” in a lighter voice, use simple words, increased tone. Moreover, all babies do babbling, even babies with listening problems. Babbling is when a baby says repetitive syllabus, and most likely, no one could understand except the baby herself. Bubbling is a must-have experience for all infants to stimulate language skills, so that they can develop normally.

Developmental objectives Language development: Letter recognition- The children will identify upper case letters by corresponding the letters to familiar objects.

1. David has neither done the dishes nor has he made his bed. 2. My goals are to learn proper grammar and writing effectively. 3. I plan to travel next summer either in Europe, or I’ll visit Central America 4. The suspect sold his house, packed his belongings, and he has left town. 5. Greg would rather enroll in Social Services than to choose Fine Arts 6. He is both tired from jet lag, and he is irritated by the long waiting lines.

Early Childhood Language Skills At 18 months, the virtual child had over 50 words at her command that she was able to use to make two-word sentences such as “Mama up” and “Doggie outside.” In their effort to further encourage the child’s development of her language skills, the parents applied B.F. Skinner’s operant conditioning theory (Berk, 2012). They would respond, using slightly longer sentences such as “Yes, the doggie is outside” before introducing descriptive and useful new words. The parents would encourage imitation and respond with positive reinforcement, which would further enthuse the child to develop her language skills (Berk, 2012). When the child was 2 years old, the parents would converse with the child at any given opportunity and would read books of her choice which further influenced her language development. Research has found that when mothers are more responsive during the first few years of a child’s life enable their children to achieve language development milestones at an earlier stage than children whose mothers were less responsive (Leigh, Nathans & Nievar, 2011). The mother had a more influential role in the virtual child’s language development as she would allow the child to explore the surrounding environment through daily walks and teach the child new words as they did. It was due to parental involvement and an encouraging, safe environment, the virtual child developed her language skills not only due to influence but to a desire to learn new

Learning English for me has been a hard journey. Born in Mexico City, both of my parents were Mexican. My father came from a medium low socio economical background, but he made his way up and became a lawyer (very smart and with great aspirations), my mother even though she was smart, her family circumstances caused her to forgo a higher education. Both Spanish speakers, they never thoroughly learned a 2nd language; they tried to learn English (father) and French (mother) but they never seriously pursued it, so their knowledge of other languages was basic. Reading and writing was well modeled at my home, books were everywhere as were open doors to good private education. Both of my parents were world travelers, so learning a language was really encouraged and an asset in my household. At the age of 3, my father registered me in a German preschool, so I did pre-kindergarten there. I just remember to singing “guten morgen fraulen” every morning. By the age of 4, my father decided to change me to a new school so I went to a British English bilingual school, where 75% of the day was fully English Immersion. English language was highly valued at school as well as in my country and learning English was seen as a precondition for access to higher jobs. (J.Long 2011)

Field Experience AK is a nine year old ELL student in Mrs. Tobin’s fourth grade classroom. He was five years old and entering Kindergarten when his family moved to the United States of America from Macedonia. This means he’s been in the country for four years and he has received all

Conclusion The acquisition of language forms a fundamental basis for a child’s development, it is an essential social skill which children need for communicating, building relationships with others, and learning (Brock and Rankin, 2008). As a general rule acquisition of language follows a systematic sequence (Boyd and Bee, 2009), however some children experience atypical language development and are developmentally delayed with certain characteristics of language (Hawa and Spanoudis, 2013). In the case of Marcus, a contributing factor towards his speech delay may have been psychosocial deprivation and a lack of interaction and infant directed speech from his Mother (Hill and Saffran, 2005). It appears there are many theories relating to the discourse about how children acquire and develop language, and there have been many notable contributions and concepts offered across the decades; however no one theory is able to offer irrefutable evidence as to how language is acquired (Otto, 2006). Historically there is some dissension amongst psychologists about the origins of language acquisition, and whether this is due to nature or nurture (Hulit and Howard, 2002); however neuroscience research supports the idea that children possess a biological predisposition to detect and process language signals (Slater, 1998). Piagetian theory offers an outline of child development in terms of language acquisition and cognitive processing (Heo et al., 2011); however Piaget’s theories neglect

Elise Brown Language and Learning Due: 12/14/14 Final Paper Language in the Classroom Language is crucial in an elementary classroom. Language is used in every aspect of the teaching realm whether it is speaking, reading, or writing. There is some sort of communication present at all times. Immediately upon thinking of language within an elementary classroom the first thought is generally the subject of language arts. Within this domain students learn how to read, write, and speak. In reality, there is not a single subject in elementary school in which a student is not using language in some way. Because of this we, as teachers, need to be precise and predetermine what it is we teach and how we teach it. Many instructors lean towards

Theoretical background Language is the system by which people express their perceptions of the world using symbols, gestures and sounds that are shared and understood in their specific groups or locations. The way people communicate those ideas is totally influenced by the culture. The concept of culture encompasses all the characteristics that define a specific group in terms of values, traditions, beliefs, history, etc. expressed through language. Culture and language are, therefore, two concepts whose interconnection cannot be denied or neglected, even more when one is learning a new language. Over the years, researchers have concluded that foreign languages are learned considering the grammar structures and/or the linguistic skills that students have to develop to be effective when communicating. However, Widdowson (1978) argued that “Someone knowing a language knows more than how to understand, speak, read and write sentences. He also knows how sentences are used to communicative effect” (p.1). In this sense, the development of cultural understanding in language learning also remains to be essential for the acquisition of it.

Abstract An interesting phenomenon in the research of second language acquisition is that learners seem to acquire English grammatical morphemes in a certain order, regardless of their native languages, ages, and learning environments. Furthermore, technique of instruction and data collection seem to have little effect on the acquisition order. This study

willingness to learn. Cambridge dictionary defines language as 'a system of communication' among human beings. This communication system consists of sounds and words. The element of grammar makes communication meaningful (Cambridge Dictionary 2016). Gradually the child imitates the words from its environment. Children are more used to the words, like mom, milk, dad, no, that are recited to them frequently. At this stage,

8. As a preschool teacher, explain how you would establish and use portfolios in your classroom to document children's language development. (Chapter 12)

SUBJECT ASSIGNMENT DEVELOPING LANGUAGE SKILLS Names and surnames: Brandt, Lorena G./ De La Serna, Dolores Group: 26 Date: September 30th INDEX Introduction………………………………………………………….………………….. page 3 Productive skills: Speaking and Writing……………………….…………………….. page 3 Receptive skills: Reading and Listening…………………………….……………….. page 6 Extra skill: use of English……………………………………………...………………. page 8 Conclusion……………………………………………….……………………………….page 8 Bibliography……………………………………………………………………….……. page 9 INTRODUCTION When we teach a second language, we have to take into consideration the four basic skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking. As regards speaking and writing, they are referred to as productive or active skills, because they