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Children Language Development

Children acquire language in stages from babbling to producing multi-word sentences. They learn by listening to language around them and practicing. Babbling starts from 3-9 months, single words from 9-12 months, two word combinations from 12-18 months, and multi-word sentences emerge around 24 months. By age 5, children typically have a vocabulary of over 10,000 words and can use language socially and to tell stories.

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Children Language Development

Children acquire language in stages from babbling to producing multi-word sentences. They learn by listening to language around them and practicing. Babbling starts from 3-9 months, single words from 9-12 months, two word combinations from 12-18 months, and multi-word sentences emerge around 24 months. By age 5, children typically have a vocabulary of over 10,000 words and can use language socially and to tell stories.

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Language

Development
in Children
Prepared by: Jheric V. Matildo
Introduction:

Language development in
children is a process that
starts early in human life,
when a child begins to acquire
language by learning it as it is
spoken and by mimicry.
LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDREN

WHAT IS LANGUAGE?

WHAT IS SPEECH?

HOW DO CHILDREN ACQUIRE LANGUAGE?


Language is a code that we learn to
use in order to communicate ideas
and express our wants and needs.
Reading, writing, and speaking are
some forms of language.

Speech is the spoken form of


language.

Children learn language and speech


by listening to the language around
them and practicing what they hear.
In this way, they figure out the rules
of the language code. It is not learned
all at once but in stages over time.
Children go through a number of
different stages as language
develops, from the earliest stage
of producing cooing sounds
through being able to produce
complex multi-word sentences.
HOW DO CHILDREN
ACQUIRE LANGUAGE?
Babbling : 3 - 9 Months
Vocalization with intonation.
Responds to his name.
Responds to human voices without visual
cues by turning his head and eyes.
Responds appropriately to friendly and angry
tones.
Single Words : 9-12 Months
Uses one or more words with meaning (this
may be a fragment or a word).
Understands simple instructions, especially if
vocal or physical cues are given.
Practices inflection.
Is aware of the social value of speech.
Two Words : 12 - 18 Months

Has vocabulary of approximately 5--20 words


Vocabulary made up chiefly of nouns and
some echolalia (repeating a word or phrase
over and over).
Much jargon with emotional content and is
able to follow simple commands .
Multi-word Sentences 24 Months
 Can name a number of objects.
 Is able to use at least two
prepositions.
 Combines words into a short
sentence-Rhythm and fluency often
poor
 Volume and pitch of voice not yet
well-controlled.
 Can use two pronouns correctly: - I,
me, you, although me and I are
often confused.
 Responds to such commands as
“show me your (eyes ,nose, mouth,
hair).
Children : 36 Months
Use pronouns I, you and me
correctly, using some plurals and
past tenses.
Handles three word sentences
easily.
Understands most simple
questions dealing with his
environment and activities.
Able to reason out such questions
as “what must you do when you
are: sleepy, hungry, cool, or
thirsty”
Should be able to give his sex,
name, age.
Children : 48 Months
Knows names of familiar animals.
Names common objects in picture,
books or magazines.
Knows one or more colors.
Can repeat 4 digits when they are
given slowly.
Can usually repeat words of four
syllables.
Understands such concepts as longer,
larger, when a contrast is presented.
Readily follows simple commands
even though the stimulus objects are
not in sight.
Children 5 years
Knows common opposites: big-little, hard-
soft.
Can count to ten.
Should know his age.
Can use many descriptive words.
Should be able to repeat sentences as long as
nine words.
Should be able to define common objects.
Should be able to follow three commands
given without interruptions.
Should have simple time concepts: morning,
afternoon, tomorrow, yesterday, today.
Children : 6 Years
Should have concepts of 7 words.
Speech should be completely -
intelligible and socially useful.
Should be able to tell one a rather
connected story about a picture, seeing
relationships between objects and
happenings.
CONCLUSION:

As children age, they continue to


learn more new words every day. By
the time they enter school around the
age of five, children typically have a
vocabulary of 10,000 words or more.
THANK
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