Language development. Wow. I never knew actually considered how far it goes back and in comparison to reading. Makes sense for it to be in the genome. Think about how quickly babies pick up on sounds and words. I remember a fact from child growth and development last semester, that all babies are born makes sounds from all languages but they are pruned away quickly once they are exposed to their language. I am taking Teaching People of Other cultures also and we had to do a blog posting about language linguistics. I did some research while completing that assignment and there are roughly 6500 different languages spoken in the world! They are all different also. I picked the Cherokee language to research a little about because the indian language is something I completely forgot about. All languages have different linguistic characteristics. For example the Cherokee language does not contain any lip sounds. The only the /m/, which is strictly for a handful of old native words. Also, the Cherokee language is polysynthetic. They have words that could translate to entire phrases in english. Language can be something to brings people together or creates a barrier.
Reading the section in the book about the basis of language development. The entire …show more content…
It is their knowledge before they can actually do. Exploring the sounds of words and letters allows them to better grasp reading and writing for the future. Emergent literacy is a stepping stone to conventional reading and writing. The two steps, the sounds/codes of languages and oral language skills, both are learned through listening to others talk. I learned in child growth development that real-time ACTIVE language is necessary for a child’s development. Makes a lot more sense now. Taking to babies and children is contributions their emergent literacy. Language has been around for so much longer so it makes sense that we use this step to acquire writing and
Reading the section in the book about the basis of language development. The entire …show more content…
It is their knowledge before they can actually do. Exploring the sounds of words and letters allows them to better grasp reading and writing for the future. Emergent literacy is a stepping stone to conventional reading and writing. The two steps, the sounds/codes of languages and oral language skills, both are learned through listening to others talk. I learned in child growth development that real-time ACTIVE language is necessary for a child’s development. Makes a lot more sense now. Taking to babies and children is contributions their emergent literacy. Language has been around for so much longer so it makes sense that we use this step to acquire writing and