Language And Expressive Language In Sesame Street
All communication has two aspects: receptive language and expressive language. Receptive language is what we hear and understand. Expressive language is what we say to others. These two facets of language are very different but equally important. Receptive language is the ability to listen and understand language. Expressive language is the ability to communicate with others using language. We need both receptive and expressive language abilities, and both begin to develop at birth and experts say that parents who skip “baby talk” and speak clearly and directly to their young child improve their child's chances of speaking with clarity and having a large vocabulary.
Some of children’s television often supports this idea in using proper language …show more content…
They need background knowledge to understand new words, they need to contextualize these words in relation to each other and they need the opportunity to use the words they learn. Sesame Street enhances children’s expressive vocabulary through different levels of complexity with words, and offering definitions, clarification, and examples. The characters on Sesame Street often speak directly to the viewer and ask for help in order to keep the viewer engaged while the episodes carry a constant theme throughout. The theme for the episode I watched seemed to be managing emotions and self-regulation. Multiple characters expressed the vocabulary around those themes and the repetition may help in creating schemas for viewers. These aspects of the show improve the development in children’s receptive vocabulary. While most parts of the show do aid in proper language development, some characters serve as exceptions. Characters such as Elmo and Cookie Monster frequently use improper grammar, and refer to themselves in the third person. While Sesame Street strives to educate, the program also recognizes the need to entertain and I believe having the few characters that sometimes speak improperly offers a slight form of comfort or entertainment to
Some of children’s television often supports this idea in using proper language …show more content…
They need background knowledge to understand new words, they need to contextualize these words in relation to each other and they need the opportunity to use the words they learn. Sesame Street enhances children’s expressive vocabulary through different levels of complexity with words, and offering definitions, clarification, and examples. The characters on Sesame Street often speak directly to the viewer and ask for help in order to keep the viewer engaged while the episodes carry a constant theme throughout. The theme for the episode I watched seemed to be managing emotions and self-regulation. Multiple characters expressed the vocabulary around those themes and the repetition may help in creating schemas for viewers. These aspects of the show improve the development in children’s receptive vocabulary. While most parts of the show do aid in proper language development, some characters serve as exceptions. Characters such as Elmo and Cookie Monster frequently use improper grammar, and refer to themselves in the third person. While Sesame Street strives to educate, the program also recognizes the need to entertain and I believe having the few characters that sometimes speak improperly offers a slight form of comfort or entertainment to