How do children acquire language, I guess it depends on who you ask and since you asked me, I think it’s a combination of nature and nurture. I believe that children are born with the capabilities needed to acquire language and when you combine that with the modeling they experience every day, their language develops. I agree with the articles that we read that there is a critical period for language acquisition and that if we miss that period, a child may never be able to fully grasp language. That being said I also believe that if we teach more than one language during that same period, the child will grasp the language being taught. This was never more evident to me than when my high school Italian teacher told us that her daughter at age six spoke five languages fluently. She explained that from birth her and her husband had modeled the languages to their child, and they had a whole plan that by the time she reached high school she would be able to speak at least ten languages fluently. She brought her to class and we soon learned that she knew much more than us high school students who were completely struggling trying to acquire one new language.
I believe that language acquisition and reading go hand and hand. I know that my daughter could repeat a story back to me word for word or know that I was skipping words long before she could actually read it. She would then point to the words as I read them aloud which eventually lead to her becoming familiar with the sounds of letters. Which is a great example of how she used the language she had already acquired to assist her in learning to read.
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Language acquisition of children
Language is a concept that everyone uses some kind of it. From people who have hearing impairment to healthy people, from mentally disabled people to healthy individuals everyone has their own kind of verbal, visual or body language. All these people acquire language in several different ways. For healthy children language acquisition improves in various ways. For example they learn language by the help of their parents or closers besides their innate capacity to speak a language.
First phrases are difficult for children to make some sounds but in time they used to do it and then they become native speakers of one language or more. According to articles it is really easy to learn more than one language at the same time when the child is too young. It really is. I can say this because I am using English as a second language. Even I start to use English when I was 12 still I missed a lot of details about English. In this regard, I can indicate that the importance of reading. Especially reading books, magazines and everything is so important to improve second language. For children reading books also very important parents can start from fairy tales books with pictures and can continue with story books and reading provide well improvement and in a professional way.
According to articles there is theory of nativists who believe that ability to use language comes from peoples inner capacity, on the other hand social interactionists claim that adults, family, closers have great influence on learning language. From my point of view we cannot separate these two theories from each other. Both of them have right parts. Any body can speak language without innate ability and also without social interaction.
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