CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Starting around 6 months babies also show an influence of the ambient language in their babbling, i.e., babies’ babbling sounds different depending on which languages they hear.

Detailed explanation-2: -First or Home Language is the language first taught to a child or the language learned from birth, before the age of 3. It is usually the language heard by the child at home and used by parents for daily communication.

Detailed explanation-3: -Phonology-the study of how speech sounds, which are also called phonemes, are organized and used in a language. This includes the study of the individual sounds of a language (the phonemes), their patterns, how they are learned (which is called phonological development) and how they work together.

Detailed explanation-4: -’Levels’ of Language Phonemes are sounds which distinguish one word from another (e.g. /bet/ vs. /pet/ or /bit/) and linguists indicate phonemic transcriptions of speech by enclosing the transcription in slash brackets (/). This level of language is often called the phonemic or phonological level.

Detailed explanation-5: -What are the stages of phonological development? The key stages of phonological development are word awareness, onset and rime, syllable awareness, rhyme and alliteration, and phonemic awareness.