PSYCHOLOGY

LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

WHAT IS LANGUAGE?

• The speech that we use to communicate our views and ideas from one person to other is called language.

STAGES OF LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

• The language development of a child begins right from the birth cry.

• It is further developed by the family at home and later by the teacher at school.

• It is essential that the child should learn to express effectively and efficiently.

ROLE OF TEACHER• The teacher plays a very important

role in this process, as she is the person responsible for laying the foundation of various other languages.

• To teach a new language the teacher must make use of the mother tongue.  

• The teacher should adopt methods that go on from known to unknown, easy to hard and general to specific and so on.

• This helps the child to learn the basic concepts in an easy way.

HEREDITY & ENVIRONMENT• Heredity and

environment are the factors that cause individual differences in language.

• The hereditary factors of an individual come from his genes.

• The environmental factors encompass the physical surroundings, traditions, code of ethics, contact with other people etc.

FACTORS INFLUENCING LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

• The parents, teachers, community and society also play a very important role in the language development of an individual.

• Age, gender, intelligence, achievement and socio-economic factors lead to individual differences.

METHODS USED BY TEACHER FOR LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

• playway methods

• easy language

• discussions

• experimental method

• by creating interest

• by mingling with the children

• by behaving as a guide

• observation method

• case study

by using the standard methods