A presentation about language development

1. LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
A PRESANTATION BY
ABDUL MANAF CHALIYAMPURATH
KSTC THALIPARAMBA

2. LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
Language development is a process starting
early in human life. When a person begins to
acquire language by learning it as it is spoken or
mimicry

3. Stages of language
development
Infant
Toddlers
Two year old
Thee-four year old
Five year old
Six year old

4. Infant (0-1 year)
It is called pre production stage. The infant
comprehends minimum, vocalisation with
intonation, responds to his name, responds to
human voices without visual cues by turning his
head and eyes

5. Toddlers ( 12-24 months)
 Produces considerable “ jargon” : puts word and
sound together into speech- like ( inflected )
pattern.
 Follows simply directions “ give Daddy the cup”
 When asked, will point to familiar persons,
animals, and toys
 Speech is 25-50 present intelligible during this
period
 Enjoys rhymes and songs : tries to joining in

6. Two year old
 Enjoys being read to if allowed to participate by
pointing, making relevant noises , turning pages
 Uses fifty to three hundred different words ;
vocabulary continuously increasing
 Repeatedly asks , “ what ‘ s that?’
 Some stammering is common
 Is able to verbalise needs.

7. Three- four year old
 Uses prepositions “on, in, and under”
 Produces elaborate sentence structures: “the cat ran under
the house before I could see what colour It was.”
 Speech is almost entirely intelligible
 Refers to activities , events, objects, and people that are
not present
 Changes tones of voice and sentence structure to adopt to
listener’ s level of under standing.

8. Five year old
 Vocabulary of 1500 words plus
 Tells a familiar story while looking at
pictures in a book
 Identifies and names four to eight colors
 States the names of own city or town,
birthday , and parent’ s names
 Answers telephone appropriately ; calls
person to phone or takes a brief messages
 Speech is almost entirely intelligible

9. Six year old
 Can identify right and left hands fairly consistently
 Talks a lot
 Experiments with slang and profanity and finds It funny
 Able to carry on adult –like conversations ;asks many
questions
 Learns 5-10 words daily ; vocabulary of10000-14000
 Can’t handle things not going their own way
 Has mood swings towards primary caregiver depending on
the day
 Loves telling jokes and riddles ; often, humour is far from
subtle