4. WHAT IS LANGUAGE?
• We communicate our different emotions with
others.
• System of communication that relies upon words
and composition of words to form sentences.
• Differentiates humans from non humans.
5. LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT?
• Is the process by which children come to understand
and communicate language. From birth up to the
age of five, children develop language at a quick
pace.
1. Referential language development is denoted as labeling
different objects.
2. Expressive language development children discuss their
emotions and needs.
6. THEORIES OF LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
• The Learning Perspective
- This point of view contends that children copy what they
see and hear. Kids learn from punishment reinforcement. (B.F.
Skinner)
• The Nativist Perspective
- The nativist point of view narrates that people are
naturally made to learn knowledge. (Noam Chomsky)
- People contain a language acquisition device (LAD)
- It is comprised of grammatical rules which permit the
children to understand the principles of language which they
generally listen.
7. • Inter-actionist Perspective
- Inter-actionists argue that language development is both
biological and social.
- Children conceive language with the brain that develops
gradually and to obtain new understandings which convinced to
report to others.
- Vygotsky’s model of collaborative learning. (Vygotsky’s)
THEORIES OF LANGUAGE
DEVELOPMENT
9. COMPONENTS OF LANGUAGE
Phoneme is the basic unit of language and is
concerned with the sounds of alphabets.
Phonology deals with the sounds in a language.
Morphology is related to the vocabulary building.
10. Syntax deals with the structure of sentence and the
sequence of words in it.
Semantics studies meanings in a language.
Pragmatics studies human actions and their
explanation by signs in languag
COMPONENTS OF LANGUAGE
11. LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT AT INFANCY AND
EARLY CHILDHOOD
Language development starts from birth when baby produces
sounds to realize its existence to others.
During 0-3 months of age children reflects his emotions by
listening the different sounds and smiles at viewing
different personalities.
During 4-6 months children show their reactions by yes or no
and produce babbling sounds.
12. During 2-3 years of age, comprehension of compound words
develop, the child can differentiate different ideas and
develops the capacity to have words for nearly everything.
7-12 months is the age of fun and the babbling of children
changes.
Between 1-2 years of age, the children focus on pictures,
they can indicate body parts and there is increase in learning
of words.
LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT AT INFANCY AND
EARLY CHILDHOOD
13. During 3-4 years of age, the children listen more clearly
when we call and his structure of uttering sentences
extends.
During 4-5 years of age, the child can answer questions
and can appreciate stories and can talk more clearly and
more easily.
LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT AT INFANCY AND
EARLY CHILDHOOD
16. 6. ORGANIZATION
• do not remain isolated but are well connected among
themselves and this process of interconnecting
schemas forms into a unified structure.
