Language Development of a Child from Birth to 5 Years

Children’s language development usually begins in their first three months. They will begin by learning to use their voice and enjoying vocal play. Babies will watch faces and mouths to try and copy movements and sounds.

Studies have shown that during this critical period, children learn language by participating in back-and-forth interactions with the important adults in their lives. When a child sends a message, whether it be with a gesture, a sound, or a word, his parents' responses serve as helpful feedback that reinforce and encourage his learning. This responsive feedback is an essential ingredient in the language-learning process for every child.

All language theorists acknowledge nature and nurture both play significant roles in children’s language development. However, the theoretical debate to whether nature or nurture is the dominant tool during a child’s language

Nature and nurture both play a significant role in language development. Language development refers to how children understand, organise, speak and use words in order to communicate at an effective, age-appropriate level (Karen Kearns, 2013, P.105). For centuries, theorists have been debating the roles of nature versus nurture. Although, each child’s language will develop at their own pace and there will be many individual differences based on culture, ethnicity, health and ability. As well as physical, social, emotional and cognitive development in which will contribute to a child’s language development.

The level of a child’s communication skills can have an effect on most areas of development. If a child is struggling with communication and language they

There may be a recognised syndrome or disorder that causes language difficulty for the child and is not able to communicate with others. The child may have a lack of stimulation and support to provide the rich language experience necessary to develop speech, language and communication skills. For example at school, the setting may not have an enabling environment to stimulate the child’s different interests necessary for acquiring language. The books, music, songs and so on may not stimulate and interest the child.

The report includes the use of research in linking to theories of language development and supporting children with EAL, practice, parent partnership in the form of gaining information on the interests of the child, observations, role of practitioners, and peers. Parents were also encouraged to stay within sessions.

This article is credible because it was published in the Child Language Teaching and Therapy Journal. It was also found on the SAGE Journals online database. The article was produced by researchers who come from well-known and respected universities around the world. The article was published in 2016, and it is only one year old. This indicates that the information is current and up to date compared to other older findings in the field. The data collection process is also thoroughly described in the methodology section of the article (Waring, Eadie, Liow, & Dodd, 2016).

Language is a communicative system of words and symbols unique to humans. The origins of language are still a mystery as fossil remains cannot speak. However, the rudiments of language can be inferred through studying linguistic development in children and the cognitive and communicative abilities of primates as discussed by Bridgeman (2003). This essay illustrates the skills infants have that will eventually help them to acquire language. The topics covered are firstly, the biological aspects, the contribution of the human brain to language development? Secondly, key theories of language development will be considered. Is the development innate? Is there a critical period? Thirdly, what must be learned? What are the rudiments infants must

The exact way in which millions of developing children get to the point where they can produce and understand millions of words and make sentences out of it is the subject of a heated debate in the psycholinguistic field. According to Saxton (2010,p.18), the study on how children learn language can be traced back to the German biologist, Tiedermann, in 1787. However, up until the late 1950’s, it is generally agreed that approach to child language research is at best haphazardly organized. Research for example was often limited to a generally informal observations (for example research done by Lukens,1894) or diary

The acquisition of child language has become a heated debate in which many discuss how and when a child is able to learn both their first and even their second language. The critical period hypothesis is a theory which claims that after a certain age children will no longer be able to achieve a native level of fluency in any given language. This essay aims to dissect the evidence which supports and contradicts this, and will draw upon studies and experiments conducted on both human children and even more broadly in a number of different species. As children approach the age of 17/18 months their ability to learn language is accelerated and they enter the ‘vocabulary spurt’ (lasting several months) during which they can acquire on average 10 new ‘naming’ words a day (Beverly A. Goldeld and J. Steven Reznick, 1990, Early lexical acquisition: rate, content, and the vocabulary spurt, Journal of Child Language). This phenomena appears to be limited to children of this age, however could this occur in older children or adolescents, who have experienced a lack of exposure to language or, who are attempting to learn a second language? Is this speed of acquisition solely restricted to those in this particular (‘sensitive’) stage of their lives?

The current study involved 118 typically developing children with the average age of 59.6 months. All the children were attending kindergarten in Turin Italy. The data was collected between the years 2009 and 2012. The group was comprised of sixty-four girls and fifty-four boys. The two subsamples of boys and girls were similar in respect to age, type of early childcare received, maternal education, parents’ country of birth and verbal quotient.

This term paper aims at reviewing various stages of language development in human being early life in regards to language development. The paper also analyzes various theoretical issues and hypothesis that contributes to change of speech and how human beings corporate the changes in their daily development as far as language is concerned. Adult language and child language are quite different especially because adults have more exposure to the society norms than the children. It will also take in to consideration various processes of learning, how children acquire linguistic inputs such as forms meanings and word use during their talking processes. This term paper will focus on the child development in terms of language and gender. It is a paper on how children under the age of 10, learn language adaptation to their first language during their early developmental stages. It will identify theories for learning of a language, childhood development as well as look into the societal norms of gender socialization.

Language development is very important for a child to understand and grasp. One of the first signs to tell if your child has some type of developmental issue is to test their language abilities. Where does language development stem from? Some say it stems from the environment and some say it comes from your parents, peers and social interactions. The theory that we will be discussing in this paper is the behavioral theory of language development. Behavioral theory is the belief that children acquire language through social interactions. They will hear words over and over and start to say them and eventually learn the meaning behind the word. Children like to see your reaction after they repeat a word making them more prone to doing it (Bloom, Hood, & Lightbown, 1974). This is a controversial topic that researchers debate on all the time and they haven’t figured out which is the best method to use.

Language and children: - before birth of the children there are some part in brain develops which is responsible for development of language.