When is it considered to be the best time to learn a first language? Give appropriate examples to support your answer.
Language is a mean of communication used by living things developed from thousands of years ago. The human especially, have managed to revolutionize the use of language in order to make it more efficient as a mean of message transfer between one person to another. Speaking a language is a quintessential trait for a human in order to survive as a community and it is an ability that is learned naturally through mean of acquisition. Learning a first language, or first language acquisition, is usually best occurred from birth to the first few years of a person’s life. It is the most optimum or ideal time to acquire the first language
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This babbling is form through the movement of opening and closing their jaw, lips and tongue and just generally produce sound that their vocal articulate. The babble usually makes no sense and has no literal meaning whatsoever but it serves more as a practice for the infant in improving their sound producing organ and the effect of the movement of their sound organ. General syllable babbled by infant include ‘baba’, ‘dada’, ‘nana’ and ‘mama’.
At about ten month, the infant will move on to the next stage, one word (holophrastic) stage, where they will mouth recognizable word albeit only limited to one word. The word they use is usually to express their emotion or for them to make an exclamation or gain the attention of other people. The use of their one-word speech is usually very broad and can be very difficult for adults to understand. For example, they may point to any four-legged animal they see and exclaim ‘dog!’ regardless whether said animal is a dog or
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Yes, but children does not acquire first language solely on imitation. Other method is necessary too in order for children to acquire first
Language Development: In terms of language development, I did not hear any verbal communication from Manden along my observation. However, he can already recognize his own name and responded to it by smiling or wriggling. This is what I expected for a 6-month-old infant in their language development. Nevertheless, I did not hear Manden’s babbling like what is expected from infant...
The child is at stage three linguistic speech in oral development (Fellows & Oakley, 2014). They show evidence of this in both their receptive and expressive language meeting the criteria for this stage (Fellows & Oakley, 2014). They show evidence of their receptive language by their ability in being able to understand opposites (Fellows & Oakley, 2014). While they had some issues with the differences between soft and scratchy they were able to demonstrate the differences between big and little several times during the dialogue. They showed evidence of their expressive language by their use of telegraphic speech, expanding vocabulary and in the ability to take in turns of speaking and listening (Fellows & Oakley, 2014). Telegraphic
Lev Vygotsky proposes that infants coos, cries and babbles are just reflexive behavior and the foundation for later external interactive language.
For starters, human babies are able to interpret what their parents are trying to disseminate with them even though the baby is not able to speak. In an article, Paul C. Holinger M.D., says, (2012) “During infancy, the baby and caretakers communicate through facial expressions and gestures and sounds…” In the early stages of childhood, kids are not really cognizant of what their parents are telling them; however, the tone in which the baby's parents say something can trigger a child’s sense on whether it is good or bad. For example, when a parent rejects their baby's request, the baby is aware that it is not getting what it wants, resulting in the baby pouting or crying. The baby knows that it is not going to get what it want because it can hear the tone in the voice change once the parents say no to the request. In another sense, if the parents approach the baby smiling and making googly eyes, the baby is aware and receptive of the love and affection given by the parents. Furthermore, not only can babies comprehend human language without speaking it animals can as well. In an online article, Simon Plant/Corbis explains, (2015) “It turns out that people who talk to their dogs may be onto something. Studies show that the average dog can understand about 165 different words, in some cases more if you make a point of training them… Posture, context, and daily
The child seems to conform to the normal development that other children her age demonstrate. According to Carol Stoel-Gammon (1987), 24 month olds should be able to make a /b/ sound in the initial position just as the child does in utterance 6 (p.327). She can also make an /n/ sound in the final position. See utterance 39.
The mother reports remembering her daughter babbling, but says she did not say her first word until much later on than her first child. She said that this was a concern for her and that she discussed it with her pediatrician who did not see any cause for alarm at the time. When t...
Soderstrom, M. (2007). Beyond baby talk: Re-evaluating the nature and content of speech input to preverbal infants. Developmental Review, 27(4), 501-532.
Infants understand speech before their bodies have matured enough to physically perform it, speech patterns develop before the physical growth of their vocal chords. It is important to remember that
Consequently, usually around the sixth month, the infant begins to babble. A large variety of sounds are produced in this period, many of them do not considered occur in the language of the household. During this period, children are learning to distinguish between the sound that are part of their language, and the one which does not. In the stage of babbling, children are learnt to maintain the correct sounds and suppressed the one which are incorrect.
How do children acquire language? What are the processes of language acquisition? How do infants respond to speech? Language acquisition is the process of learning a native or a second language. Although how children learn to speak is not perfectly understood, most explanations involve both the observations that children copy what they hear and the inference that human beings have a natural aptitude for understanding grammar. Children usually learn the sounds and vocabulary of their native language through imitation, (which helps them learn to pronounce words correctly), and grammar is seldom taught to them, but instead that they rapidly acquire the ability to speak grammatically. Though, not all children learn by imitation alone. Children will produce forms of language that adults never say. For example, “I spilled milk on hisself” or “Debbie wants a cookie”. This demonstrates that children have the desire to speak correctly and have self-motivating traits to communicate. This supports the theory of Noam Chomsky (1972)-that children are able to learn grammar of a particular language because all intelligible languages are founded on a deep structure of universal grammatical rules that corresponds to an innate capacity of the human brain. Adults learning a second language pass through some of the same stages, as do children learning their native language. In the first part of this paper I will describe the process of language acquisition. The second part will review how infants respond to speech.
Language is a multifaceted instrument used to communicate an unbelievable number of different things. Primary categories are information, direction, emotion, and ceremony. While information and direction define cognitive meaning, emotion language expresses emotional meaning. Ceremonial language is mostly engaged with emotions but at some level information and direction collection may be used to define a deeper meaning and purpose. There is perhaps nothing more amazing than the surfacing of language in children. Children go through a number of different stages as language develops. According to Craig and Dunn, (2010), “Even before birth, it appears that infants are prepared to respond to and learn language” (p. 112). Children develop these skills quickly with nature and nurture influences. Researchers have proposed several different theories to explain how and why language development occurs. This paper is an overview of the process of early childhood language development with research evidence supporting the information stated.
... proposes LAD as the innate mental mechanism that makes language acquisition possible. Chomsky's linguistic competence is the underlying knowledge that enables individuals to speak and understand their language. A native speaker has access to knowledge about the structure of his language which guides him in his language use. Second, Chomsky distinguished linguistic knowledge from language performance which is the use of language in a particular social context. Third, a child must acquire linguistic competence in order to be able to use language successfully. Forth, also he suggested universals of language which is languages share certain features. Fifth, also he suggested a critical period for language acquisition which is by the age of five children acquire almost the structure of their language. Elliot, J. A. (1981). Child Language . Cambridge University Press.
Nearly every member of the human race learns a language or more to the degree of proficiency only in the first few years of life. How children achieve this astonishing skill in such little time has sparked controversial debates among linguists, psychologists, and scientists throughout centuries. Some believe that language is an innate ability possessed by all human beings due to the remarkable function of the brain, while others maintain that language is learned from childhood experience. However, many are beginning to realize that nature and nurture go hand-in-hand when explaining how children develop their language(s). Despite the claims that language is either pre-learned or environmentally learned alone, the combination of both genes and experience better explains the aspects of first language acquisition.
According to (Wisniewski, 2007), second language learning process differs from first language acquisition, with the latter taking place usually from infancy in a community using a specific language and affected mainly by neurological developments in the brain (McCain, 2000) while the former taking place usually in schools or later in life and affected by age and associated characteristics (McCain, 2000).
The issue focused on importance of learning of foreign languages. Many people ask "Why should I learn foreign languages? " Learning a foreign language takes assiduity and free time. In order to understand this importance we need first to understand benefits of knowing and learning foreign languages.