Niger-Congo languages

Oral language development refers to the process and stages a child will go through while learning to communicate through spoken words. This process occurs over many years and varies from child to child. Oral language skills begin to develop in babies as they listen to the people around them speak and eventually the child will begin to use language on their own. How quickly a child’s vocabulary grows is greatly influenced by how much the parents talk to their child; however sometimes other…

words, and words make up the languages spoken around the world. These languages define who we are or who we want to be. When we are born we are taught to learn to a specific language and as we get older we either learn new ones or learn more about the language we first know. I for one grew up around the Spanish language and later on I learned to speak English. Now that I am older I have chosen Spanish as my target language. Not many people know how to use this language correctly, I want to be…

Language is a method of communication, either spoken or written, which varies around the world. Language is not only used by humans, but animals too. It is undeniable that all creatures that roam the earth have their own language, or way of communicating. However, each language is entirely different. One is more predominately advanced, human’s language. Humans are able to share past, present and even the idea of future experiences with one another through communication. Bees use communication…

and experiences (Kendrick & McKay, 2009). While compared to a graphical monolog, the function of scribbling is closely connected with the egocentric language (Longobardi et al., 2015). Therefore, scribbling as an alternative way for children to represent and create their knowledge of literacy is a reorganization and representation of the child’s language system, aiming for and enabling effective communication and understanding (Longobardi et al.,…

oral language, phonological awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. A balanced approach to teaching these necessary components for reading instruction will promote effective independent readers (Sperling, Sherwood & Hood, 2013, p.462). Effective reading occurs when educators teach children to read to the best of their ability (Bayetto, 2013, p.20). Oral language is the first element of literacy development and is vital to the reading process. To understand written language…

Indigenous Language and Mental Health Recent studies (Walls, Hautala, and Hurley, 2014) have reported the association between language dispossession and a steady increase in suicide rates amongst First Nations youth in Canada. Indeed, the ability to articulate inner psychological experiences, and its association with mental health has been the focus of many psychological researches around the world. For instance, Şimşek (2010) contributed to the conceptualization of language as a determinant…

HI I'm Raiden a sixteen year old high school Student whose life has been drastically change due to this Mental illness. Lets start when I was first starting to communicate I was 3 The mental illness would make me pay more attention to surrounding sounds and that what I used to communicate. I never learned to fully speak until I was 10 years old. people used to judge my parents because I couldn't talk and thought I was being neglected. which in reality I was just being myself. eventually I got…

The Alphabetic Principle involves the understanding that sounds of letters and that letters represent sounds are combined to form represent sounds are combined to form words. Between the spoken sounds and the written language, a connection is made. Based on a relationship between systematic sounds, written letters, and spoken words, letters and their combinations are the symbols used to represent the speech sounds. The Alphabetic Principle is composed of three parts. They are letter naming,…

Sophia’s literacy development in the area of language shows a normal sign developmentally for a 9 year old child. She is a fluent speaker of English, and she speaks Spanish as well. Sophia speaks standard English comfortably, she rarely uses slang or vernacular dialect. Sophia’s phonemic awareness becomes strong which she is able to identify and manipulate the sounds. She is no problem in constructing complex sentences at her age, she can speak long declaratives which include clauses. For…

The author uses figurative language to contribute to the tension in “A Costly Treasure” by describing the figurative language. She is describing it to let you know what she is seeing. The author uses figurative language to contribute to the tension in A Costly Treasure for example, the passage stated that a rock “looked like someone’s petrified brain.” This is figurative language because a rock can’t actually be a petrified brain. This is also figurative language because the author was…