Individuals continue to acquire semantic knowledge throughout their lives as learners.
Language is not just acquired in the early stages of life when children are mastering their language, but is important to keep in mind that people of all ages are acquiring constant knowledge about their language. So upper elementary, middle, high school, an beyond should have teachers that are aware of this and encourage students language skills.
An important factor in early social interac-tions is the responsiveness of adults lo an infant's behaviors (nonverbal and verbal).
This is why teachers need to be on their A game at all times, without the kids outwardly saying they look up to you, they will regardless. Therefore, you must be thermostat and not thermometer - to set the temp in the room not to just to constantly raise or lower it.
two key interaction pallerns that enhance language dovolopmenl: eyo conlact/shared reference and communication loops.
Important!!!! Eye contact with humans at all ages is significant, but especially when building up a language because it helps attach visual feelings with speech to describe. Communication loops are important as well to engage in conversation as much as possible.
Informal linguistic routines also involve turn tak· ing within communication loops.
In the classroom and as a (potential) future parent, you should have linguistic daily routines as well as your regular active daily routines.
a caterpillar. IL has yellow and black stripes. Can you see how it moves? Slowly, slowly, little by little. It can even climb up a hanging leaf. See where its eyes are? It looks furry. See U1e tiny hairs that cover its body'f Look al all of its feet."
Verbal mapping is important!!!! Children have questions about EVERYTHING, it's in their best interest to help them understand the world as best possible. This includes verbally describing what they are seeing so they can put words behind what they are looking at. (((and from a early childhood stand point... it can be fun))).
When eye contact and shurod reference are not eslnblishod, communi-cation often breaks down or is nol even inilinlod as there is no clear common focus.
This main issue with use of technology at such a young age when learning languages is first beginning!
This "baby talk" is enthusiastically received as "real talk" by parents and others, along with the expectation that these early forms of spooch
Important for not only educators to learn, especially in an Early Childhood ed. setting, but parents as well! Kids need to hear the real deal about language!
hildren's active engagement with others as well as other aspects of their :vironmenl that provide motivation to develop language competencies and (b) ~be effort of the language learner in making sense of the "linguistic, emotional, and physical actions" present their environment
Group work in a classroom is so important!
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This is something I have heard time and time again already in my EDU classes; the classes that the little tikes first have are crucial to brain development (which includes language comprehension) and should be treated as crucial matter. Because these years in the beginning of school is so precious to students, teachers should try their best to encourage their students to exercise the knowledge that they are learning continuously so that it secures a strong foundation for their future of learning more complex subject matter. Teachers should also keep in mind the importance of the lessons they are teaching, and attempt to get students excited about their new vocabulary and skills.
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Important note- Teachers should utilize this knowledge by instruction fun exercises with children that will use both written and spoken parts of language to ensure their students are comfortable with both.
Conversational competence depends on the development of specific skills of toking turns, keeping_ similar or related topics as the focus of the conversation, encouraging parliciR_ation 1rom the other ersonTs), and cl~yLQg~p_arnng areas of confusion.T
The textbook break-down of what a competent conversation is with pragmatic language knowledge makes it evident that in the generations that we see going through the early stages of the education system now (and even some of our peers), could lack these skills due to focus on technology constantly, rather than human interaction. Therefore, because you can see exactly what skills should be apart of a competent conversation, it could benefit language learners to continuously be practicing making competent conversation with each other throughout their school day so that the teacher may intervene and correct, if necessary (I.E. group work, skill building activities with a partner, entire classroom participation, etc).
Storybook sharing is a very effective way to encourage children to begin to perceive pros~TIMsiTiunderstancling language because the range of language used in slor_ybooks-,ma the range of dramatic expression in story sharing are much greater than in day-to-day conversations.
the REAL reason behind story time! One of my favorite parts about pre-K, early elementary school
Prosodic fealures in a languago represent the wa)~sometl1h.!_g is said.
(personal opinion) One of the MOST important parts of understanding language - Prosodic features. Further down in this paragraph it states that this includes "facial expressions and body posture" in both language that is communicated out loud, and in sign language.
however, the nspects do not develop in isolation from each other. Each of these aspects of language knowledge is present in any interaction in which language is
Language knowledge is crucial to understand when teaching young minds how to understand and express language to one another. This is the first time I have seen language being broken down into a handful of different knowledge of languages. This is interesting and a great thing to perfect and keep in mind when teaching language because you cannot have a complete understanding of language, without all of the aspects of language knowledge together.
attention to lan8!!Q.@_ a~municg_li9Il..!J!!.J1er than a fo_cus on spi3_e.ch_pro_ctu<1tion ~nd..th~_.de.v.elopment of articulation.
As an educator, it is important to give meanings to lessons being taught to students so that they find the information being taught useful and relevant. This text will give the meaning of communication to language -arguably the most important activity that humans participate in-, rather than learning only clusters of words with perfect articulation.