The Importance Of Language Skills

Language skills are the skill a child develops when communicating, expressing and understanding feelings. During the first years of age, a child is like a sponge listening and absorbing all the vocabulary that he or she listens from the parents or any other family member. Parents talk to their child in their primary language. The children as they listen to the parents talking begin to form and understand vocabulary. Reading is also an important factor in developing language skills. Reading with a child daily can help the children develop a sense of vocabulary and start identifying different emotions or images that are part of the world they live in. Based on how these two children communicated with me, I could possibly identify that they were

I grew up in a Hispanic household where my parents spoke to me in Spanish. In my first years of life, I never got exposed to talking in English because my parents did not understand the language. Although many children at an early age are able to learn more than one language at the same time to me learning English was quite difficult. I always got exposed to the Spanish Language. My mother would always sing to me and read to me in Spanish. I slowly began to speak Spanish perfectly. Until I got to preschool I started learning English. My teachers would always communicate with me in English. In order to develop my English vocabulary since I could not practice my English at home my teachers would often read me books in English or sing songs in English so I could start developing my vocabulary and start identifying objects. By the end of five years old I could identify the basic colors like purple, red, and black and sing “The wheels of the bus go round and round”. My mom said that when I was a preschool I would always read and sing the songs that I learned in