UNIVERSITYF NAIROBI KIKUYU CAMPUS

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND EXTERNAL

STUDIES.

NAME: John Kisyoka Evans

REG NO: E45/4457/2019

COURSE TITLE: CHILD DEVELOPMENT:

EARLY CHILDHOOD 3-6YEARS.

COURSE CODE: TEC 102

SUBMITTED TO: DR Samwel Mwanda.

DATE OF SUBMISSION: 26/6/2020

[Link] the following patterns of language development in preschoolers
VOCABULARY:vocabulary in language development is the ability the child has to use
connecting words like when and but,words that explain things going on in his or her brain like
remember,words that explain complicated emotions like confused and words that explain the
position of things like above and below.

GRAMMAR AND SYNTAX:Grammar is the set of rules for how words, group of words
and sentences can go togetherWhile syntax is a set of rules that govern how words are combined
to form phrases and sentences.

1. b) Role of private speech in language development.

Private speech Improves pronunciation hence eloquency,aids children to verbally guide their own
behavior,it's used by children as a repetitive strategy to enhance working memory by maintaining
informat to be remembered,it increases children's motivation when a child expresses goals,
opinions,feelings and self thought through private speech and improves creativity as children often
use private speech during creative and imaginative play.

1.c) Advantages of language development to a preschooler.

Advantages of language development to a preschooler includes language development aids the
child in communication,improves the eloquency and pronunciations skills,it aids the preschooler
in expressing feelings through body language,thoughts and opinions,it increases creativity and
helps children to come up with new ideas finally through communication a preschooler is able to
develop and maintain relationships.

2.a) Discuss the functions of emotions to a pre schooler

Emotions play a critical role in every day [Link] ability to express,regulate and understand one's
and others emotions is known as emotional [Link] competence is linked with
good social skills and goid performances at schools.

Children who are emotionally competent tend to have a successful social [Link] childrenwho
are emotionally competent tend to be more popular among their peers i.e they tend to have more
friends and display higher levels of pro-social behavious than those who are emotionally
incompetent.

Children who are emotionally competent tend to have good relationships with their teacher than
their counterparts who are emotionally [Link] also demand more from the children
with whom they have good relationships [Link] children who are emotionally competent tend
to be better in performance.
2.b) The influence of cultural expectations on emotional development and
expression
Each and every community has its own unique cultural [Link] places different expectations
on the behaviors of children in the different communities.
The community's expectations of the children makes the children have a positive emotional
development which is to the liking of the community.
2.c) Moral development: moral development is the individual's progress through phases of
moral reasoning with the concepts of justice, fairness and well being.
2.d) piaget's view of:
>moral reasoning
According to piaget's view, moral reasoning is the process through which individuals try to
determine what is right and what is wrong by use of logics.
This occurs withinand among individuals
>moral behavior
Moral behavior are the acts of me ones morals and [Link] ability to reason about moral
issues provides a basic level of understanding necessary moral actions.

3.a) Self-esteem
Self esteem is an individuals subjective evaluation of their own worth or value.

3.b) The process through which preschoolers develop the concept of self-esteem.
A preschoolers self esteem develops in school and at home through various activities that the child
gets involved in and how the child is treated by parents,siblings,teachers and fellow children in
[Link] child can get involved in healthy risk activities like swimming to develop a child's
esteem that she or he is able to handle difficult [Link] in the child in creativity competition
shows in order for the child to show out his or her creative ideas in drawing, colouring and model
making to show the child that he or she is capable of making something of their own thus
developng self [Link] child can also be put up to task to participate in pronunciation
competition to boost the child's courage to speak in people's presence hence developing eloquency
and developing the child's [Link] a child improves on something or does good the parents
and teachers offer praise to the child through this the child's the esteem is [Link] parents
and family members can appreciate the child's physical appearance to develops the child esteem
on how she or he views his or herself.

3.c) what teachers and care givers do to help a child to develop self-concept.
Inorder to develop positive self concept in a child the teachers and care givers allow children to
make their own choices,they allow children take part in healthy risks like swimming,they also
encourage the children to pursue their interests,they encourage the children to find things they like
about themselves,they also give appropriate praise to the children,give constructive criticism,make
sure the child's goals are within reach at an appropriate level for his or her ability,teach students to
cope with mistakes and failure also the caregivers and teachers ban harsh critism from the
surrounding of the child at home from family members and at schools from fellow children,staff
and teachers.

3.c) How boys and girls become aware of the meaning of gender and what
explains difference in behaviour in behaviour between the sexes.
At age 2 children become conscious of the physical differences and start acting according to sex or
[Link] the children are aware of the meaning gender and where they belong;the boys start
playing with cars and superhero toys while girls play with dolls and kitchen toys,the children start
playing in divided groups according to gender where girls play in a their own group and boys in
their own,the children start refusing to ware some clothes like girls refuse to wear a pair of short
while boys refuse to wear flowery shirts,the children start hanging out with the parents according
to their similarities with them like a boy will hang out with their father and girls their mothers,they
also refuse some appearance style like girls refuse to cut their hair short and want put on some
make up like their mothers or sisters while boys refuse to keep their hair long this cutting it
short,while playing the children play according to how they see their parents for instance a girl
will occupy the part in doing house chores and caring for the baby while the boys will be fixing
thing around the house as seen in their houses.

4.a) what is play

Play is a range of internally motivated activities done for recreational pleasure and
enjoyment.

4.b) various types of play.

The various types of plays include unoccupied play in this type of play the behavior
are disorganized and mostly involved in creative body movements, independent or
solitary play happens when the children are on their own with little or no reference to
what other kids or adults are doing,onlooker play occurs when a child observes the
play of other children while not actually playing themselves, parallel play involves a
child playing besides other children but their play is still mostly
independent,associative play occurs when a child plays with other children but the kid
don't organize their play towards a common goal while cooperative play is the
beginning of teamwork as the child plays with others for a common purpose.

4.c) How young children choose playmates and friends and why some children
are more popular than others.
While playing children tend to choose playmates a child with whom they feel
comfortable and free to play [Link] choosing playmates they consider some
factors like race where a child chooses a playmate with whom they share the same
race or with whose race he or she is comfortable with,some children consider gender
while choosing a playmate hence they are likely to play with a child with whom they
share the same gender, children also concider age as they mostly and are likely to
choose a playmate with whom they share the same age bracket rather than an older
child,some children will also choose a playmate if he or she is familiar to him or
her,some consider appearance also as a factor while choosing a playmate where a
child may choose a playmate according to his or her dressing mode or physical
appearancechild is disabled in any way.
Some children tend to be popular in school than [Link] order to be popular in
school the children must have noticed some positive or negative behavior that draws
them to a particular [Link] factors may include the verbal ability of the particular
child is either excellent or poor than others surrounding him or her,the particular
student might be kind or mean in a particular manner that's different from the other
children.A child may also be less aggressive and more friendly than the rest of the
children leaving him or her peculiar from the rest making him or her popular.