Caydence's Four Stages Of Spoken Language

Children learn new things through everyday life experience. Especially, young children who attend to the program of day-care or preschool can develop speaking skills while they play and interact with peers and teachers, such as free play time, teacher-directed activities, and having snacks and lunch together. According to Janice J. Beaty (2014), “spoken language is one of the important skills” (p. 197) and a child’s language acquisition begins at birth and progress through everyday life: especially, “Young children ages 3, 4, and 5 are just at the age when their speaking develops most rapidly” (p. 215) and they go through the four stages of Preschool Language Production, which are Preproduction (just listen) Transition to Production (response
Caydence attends four days a week and has a couple friends, Michelle and Alyana. Caydence’s language development is thriving everyday and is at the stage of the Early Production because she can responses with short phrases, makes comments, and sing a song. For example, Caydence smiles and responses with the single word, “Hi” when her teacher says, “Good morning, Caydence.” Caydence does not speak until she warms up with environment. However, when Caydence plays with her friends, Michelle and Alyana at the table with the Legos, Caydence says, “I’m making a boat” and “Look, Teacher!, I’m making a boat!” says proudly. Caydence yells with a smile, “You funny!” to Michelle and adds “You funny!” to Alyana. Caydence also talks herself, “Where did it go?” and “Here is.” In addition, Caydence sings a song while she cleans up the Legos, “Clean up clean up ……clean up clean up…..” filling the phrase that she cannot pronounce with
207). Caydence speaking skills are developing as the age appropriate because she speaks with “the proper word order consistently” (Beaty, 2014, p. 216). Even though Caydence’s speaking skills are thriving, she does not engage in having a simple conversation; therefore, Caydence needs to have activities which strength her speaking skills in this area, such as a pretended play with using cell phones and nature-walk in order to create an opportunity to have conversation with