Language and Communication Skills
Introduction
All humans are born with a need to communicate. Language is the tool which allows them to do this. It begins very simply with crying sounds used to tell the parents how they are feeling and builds up quickly, by the age of 5 they can usually use a huge rane of words, put together in complex sentences to describe, question, discuss, express feelings etc.
Language has to be learnt. All babies babble in some way, even deaf babies. Language development begins at birth – a new mothers first reaction when holding her baby is to hold her close to her chest and look directly into her face and talk to her. This is the surest way to give her baby the best start.
The development of oral language is one of the child’s most natural and impressive accomplishments.
Almost all children learn the rules of their language at an early age through use and over time, without formal instruction. Thus one source of learning must be genetic. Human beings are born to speak; they have an innate gift for figuring out the rules of the language used in their environment. The environment itself is also a significant factor.
The inborn abilities and environmental content of the developing child are both of critical importance if children are to be successful in this journey to linguistic competence.
A child can learn these skills very early on in life, but training and motivation are of great importance to the perfection of the technique.
It will be discussed how children learn these skills and why these skills are extremely important in the developments of a child.
Main Body
The communication process begins the moment a child is born.
Communication is both verbal and non-verbal. The non-verbal interactions between a young child and his/her family lay the important foundation for later language development. Speech and language are the tools that we use to communicate with one another or share thoughts, ideas and emotions.
Speech is talking (verbal); it’s one way
All humans are born with a need to communicate. Language is the tool which allows them to do this. It begins very simply with crying sounds used to tell the parents how they are feeling and builds up quickly, by the age of 5 they can usually use a huge rane of words, put together in complex sentences to describe, question, discuss, express feelings etc.
Language has to be learnt. All babies babble in some way, even deaf babies. Language development begins at birth – a new mothers first reaction when holding her baby is to hold her close to her chest and look directly into her face and talk to her. This is the surest way to give her baby the best start.
The development of oral language is one of the child’s most natural and impressive accomplishments.
Almost all children learn the rules of their language at an early age through use and over time, without formal instruction. Thus one source of learning must be genetic. Human beings are born to speak; they have an innate gift for figuring out the rules of the language used in their environment. The environment itself is also a significant factor.
The inborn abilities and environmental content of the developing child are both of critical importance if children are to be successful in this journey to linguistic competence.
A child can learn these skills very early on in life, but training and motivation are of great importance to the perfection of the technique.
It will be discussed how children learn these skills and why these skills are extremely important in the developments of a child.
Main Body
The communication process begins the moment a child is born.
Communication is both verbal and non-verbal. The non-verbal interactions between a young child and his/her family lay the important foundation for later language development. Speech and language are the tools that we use to communicate with one another or share thoughts, ideas and emotions.
Speech is talking (verbal); it’s one way