Speech and language

development
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Speech and language development
• Definition of speech and language development
• Theory related of speech and language development
• Activities related of speech and language development
Definition of speech and language development

• Speech and language are the skills we use to communicate with others .It is about
how we communicate with each other ,and we get the ability to express our needs
and understand other’s wants .
• Speech is making the sounds that become words—the physical act of talking.
• Language is our system of using words to communicate. It includes using words
and gestures to say what we mean, and understanding what others say.
What fators affect the development of speech and language

• Biological endowment(DNA)
• Social interaction(environment)
Theory related of speech
and language
development
Behavioral theory Nativistic theory

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Theories

Vygotsky’s Social Piaget’s

Interactionist Constructivist
Theory Theory
 Behavioral Theory
• It’s American behaviorist and psychologist B.F. Skinner who developed the behaviorist theory of language
acquisition.
• Behaviorism research found that language learning occurred, accompanied by copying, practice, response to
success, and establishment of habits. Children may repeat the sounds and copy the patterns that they hear
surrounding them. P.M. Lightbown, N. Spada (2002)

• what is the first and foremost process in language development is imitation and practice.

• in many cases, imitation and practice cannot offer sufficient evidence to account for some of the speech patterns
created by the children. These forms are not sentences they heard from adults. Look at another example.
(Kyo,6 years 10months)
• Kyo : I'm hungry.
• Dad: We'll have some poppy seed bread in a little while.
• Kyo: No. I want it now.
• Dad: We have to wait'til it's defrosted.
• Kyo: But I like it frossed

• This example demonstrates that the patterns of earliest utterances of a child can be explained sufficiently well by behaviorism
theories, but for acquisition of the more complex grammatical structures of a language, behaviorists might feel out of their
depth .
 Nativistic theory

• The nativist linguistic theory postulates that every human being is born with innate
language ability
• Pioneered by Chomsky, this theory suggests that a human baby’s brain comes to the world
pre-equipped with language-learning systems.
• Children has already been equipped with some knowledge about language when they are
given birth to the world.
• This machinery is named as the language acquisition device(LAD), enabling children to do
the complex task
 Vygotsky’s Social Interactionist Theory

• The social interactionist theory is based on the work of Soviet psychologist Lev Vygotsky.

• This concept suggests that the child, from birth, is continually engaging in social
interactions, which allows him to develop higher cognitive functions, namely language, and
thought.

• According to Vygotsky’s social development model, socio-cultural interactions come first,

then cognition and language development.
 Piaget’s Constructivist Theory

• Piaget’s constructivist theory argues that language is constructed by following cognitive development.
In other words, people develop their language skills and construct overall knowledge based on their
own experience.

• Beyond just language development, Piaget’s theory focuses on understanding the nature of intelligence
itself. He defines four stages that cognitive development goes through:
 Sensorimotor Preoperational
stage: birth to 2 stage: 2 to 7
years years

4 stages
Cognitive development go
through
Concrete Formal
operational operational
stage: 7 to 11 stage: 12 and
years up