Language Development in Children

 LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDREN

By Kristina Gonzalez:

Language Development is compromised of 4 basic components on language. The four basic components being phonology, semantics, syntax, and pragmatics. All of these components are crucial for language development in children, in order for language development to be mastered, these four components must be met for success. Naturally some children will reach these components earlier than others, allowing for their language to develop. In this blog, we will be discussing all things related to the development of language in a child. 

WHAT DO THE 4 COMPONENTS MEAN?

PHONICS:Students need to know how words SOUND

SEMANTICS: Students need to know the MEANING of words so they are able to understand and build sentences. 

SYNTAX:Students need to know the RULES of how to build meaningful sentences. 

PRAGMATICS:Students need to be able to use social conventions and have SPEAKING strategies. 

There are multiple theoretical perspectives of language development, one being modeling and reinforcement. Modeling and reinforcement is when children copy and repeat words that they hear from others. Nativism is another theoretical perspective of language development. Nativism is the theory that language is acquired by biology, meaning it is inherited. Cognitive process is another theoretical perspective of language development. Cognitive process allows children to hear a word and infer what the word means in their native language. Sociocultural theories is also a theoretical perspective of language development, this theory focuses on social interactions which then promote language development. 

VIDEO ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRGwdfQV8kU