essay about The Process of Child’ First Language Acquisition

The Process of Child’ First Language Acquisition

Language is acquired, not “learned”. Language is an instinct and not a learned skill like playing the guitar or riding a bicycle. Every child has the capacity to learn language-any human language. What do they learn? They need sounds and words, meanings and constructions, because children do not use language like adults, because children are not adults.

When a child born, vocalizations of child are mainly expressions of discomfort (crying and fussing), along with sounds product as a by-product of reflexive or vegetative actions such as coughing, sucking, swallowing and burping.

The child begins making “comports sound” typically in response to pleasurable interaction with a caregiver. The earliest comport sounds may be grunts or sighs, with later versions being more vowel-like “coos”.

And children learn language by memorizing the words and sentences of their language. They get language for the first from their mother, they imitate what mother said “mother tongue” such as; mamma, papa, etc... But, children language can change when a child born of Indonesian-Singaporean speaking parents in an English speaking environment will learn English even if they hear only Indonesia from their parents. The environment can influence their native language.

And they start hear and see what adults do and said for the first in their surroundings. They cannot say the same with adult said, but they are pay attention what adults said seriously. The children are good observer and listener. So, they are very good at picking up distress signals from adults and if they learn to associate your worry with their speech, then you may start having real problem on your hands.

The children learn language to speak like adults because they are taught to do so by being praised and otherwise rewarded for doing thing right. They have feeling to know everything that they saw. So, the parents help them to correct when they make mistakes.

Children also produce their own language. They can get the language from listening and watching on TV, pay attention adults’ speech and in their environment. They produce their own language that only they knew.

Children language development in human seems to exhibit these properties, because the brain of human being is genetically predisposed for language. Children language be affected from that they got. So, good environment create good children language.

Children language develop automatic when they start to school. They find new friends and new knowledge there. Their language will develop automatically. In this case, the parents are only monitored and pay attention their children.

Since children are not born speaking, they must learn language. They imitate what they hear and learn when they are corrected, they actively “invent” the rules of grammar for themselves, a trial an error over time. They need to know what to use where and when, how to integrate language with other modes of communication, how to make them understood and how to understand others. They could start from nothing and discover what is (and isn’t) represented.