How language are learned.

1. THE PRE SCHOOL YEARS
&
THE SCHOOL YEARS

2. How Children Acquire and
Produce Language (BBC, 2001)

3. Guide Questions
 What do children learn when are between 3 – 4 years
old?
 What are some aspects which differentiate from the
preschool years to the school years

4. THE PRE SCHOOL YEARS
 3-4 year olds
 Make questions
 they say Commands
 Learn Vocabulary
 Social environment
 Interact with unfamiliar adults
 They develop Metalinguistic Awareness
 They difference wrong or silly sentences

5. THE SCHOOL YEARS
 They can express themselves
 They learn more sophisticated metalinguistic
awareness
 Children have access to word jokes which are shared
with their family and friends

6. THE SCHOOL YEARS
 The develop the ability to understand and produce
thousand words.
 They learn more words when they learn to read.
 children learn how written language differs from
spoken language.