A child can do many
amazing things. Language is one of the most amazing things that she/he is
capable of. To have an ability how to speak fluently, a child has to pass five
stages of language development. Firstly, when a child is zero up to six months,
the child begins to produce cooing. Cooing is basically the production of letters
to become vowels. In
this stage, a child makes a great deal of noises such as squeal, squeak, growl,
yell and gives us raspberries. Another thing that a child can do in this step
is she/he tries to give responses to human voice with cues by turning her/his
head and eyes. Secondly, it is about six months to around ten months. A child produces
somewhat more complicated sounds called babbling. In this step, she/he tries to
practice her/his vowels more precisely. She/he starts to say several words such
as ooo, aahhh, uuhh and so on. Then she/he tries to say more complicated front
vowels like ee, eh, and ay. The first consonants are h, m, and b, can be combined
with the vowels to form syllables. Soon, she/he can add p, t, d, n, w, f, v,
and y. A little while later, she/he adds k, g, and ng. Thirdly, in eight to
twelve months a child tries to make syllable variations like “badugatadudah”, she/he
tries to call her/his daddy with “dada”, makes a simple response phrase such as
“No” and other response depends on how creative the child is. Fourthly, in one
up to two years old, a child begins to understand for about fifty words, uses
mostly pronoun like me or mine and she/he begins to know a few simple commands
with gesture and understands simple questions. Fifthly, for about four up to six years old,
her/his vocabularies increase to a thousand up to two thousand words, she/he
can arrange four to six word sentences, three to four syllable words, usages of
articles is start appearing, even uses more adjectives, adverbs and
conjunctions. Besides, she/he can comprehend around two thousand words, understand
if phrase. Moreover, she/he follows complex directions. However, it is not the
end of her/his language learning. In short, the steps of language development
are really outstanding to master. In view of that, if anyone wants to
understand about language development, she/he can start learning from children
progression.
Source:
webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/langdev.html
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