ECED 2105 Lecture 12: Chapter 12

• School: Temple University
• Department: Early Childhood Education
• Course: ECED 2105
• Professor: Sughra Husain

Document Summary

The development of language occurs in infancy, when young children use sounds to express themselves. This evolves into words, short phrases, and finally sentences that the child uses to express their thoughts and feelings with one another. Language allows children to better understand the world around them. There are phonetic rules of language, which include phonology, morphology, semantics, syntax, and pragmatics. Children learn these rules as they socially interact with adults in their environment. Social interaction is a critical mechanism for children"s language acquisition and is a component of the interactionist model of language development. Students whose primary language is one other than english are faced with the challenges of learning a second language that may have different characteristics or rules. There are many ways that children learn a second language, simultaneously or sequentially. Children often shift from one language to another when they are speaking (code-switching); this does not affect language development.