THE LEARNING OF LANGUAGES/How do they develop their own language and how do they learn other languages even as children?
The language is an extremely important part for the human being, through language it is possible to communicate all our ideas and express our feelings.
The word is one of the greatest achievements of the human being, at first when there was no such defined language, living beings communicated through gestures, so over the years it was necessary to implement a system of oral communication, which depending on the place in the world where it was developed, gave rise to the different languages we know today. Some languages are maintained today as universal languages, such as English or Spanish, other languages have become extinct or have been discontinued over the years.
The language in children
From the first days of a child's life he listens to sounds, his mothers speak to them or they put music to stimulate their senses, so from the beginning he is listening to a language, which over time begins to recognize and ends up adopting as your language.
Babies from different countries cry at different frequencies, that is, the baby's cry corresponds to the vocal frequency of the language that children will speak in the future, for example, an American baby cries at the same frequency level as the English language , or a Spanish child cries at the same frequency as the Spanish language. Which shows that the language is directly proportional to the place of origin from birth
Language learning in children
From the first year of age children are able to pronounce some words, usually "water, breast, dad", this ability is developed through the imitation of language, where they basically repeat what their parents are trying to say, Although language is scarce at an early age, children communicate through gestures and sounds. For example, a very common gesture in a child is to extend his hands to his mother when he is hungry, or break into tears when something bothers him.
It is not until 5 years of age that the child uses language more appropriately to express his feelings or demand something.
Encourage children to learn languages.
Just as in everyday life in school, a child can be encouraged to learn a language other than his mother tongue.
In the schools, as part of the school curriculum, the languages are presented, the most common taught in schools are English, Spanish and French.
With children a certain pedagogy is required to teach them a different language, so the easiest way to stimulate a child to know a new language is through play didactic activities.
Outside of the language classes taught at the school, listening to music in another language is an excellent way to encourage a child of a certain age to learn a new language. It is recommended that parents listen to music with their children and sow curiosity to know what the lyrics of the song translated into Spanish say, this is a good way to discover the meaning of words.
For younger children, there are series of cartoons that are based on learning another language such as English, animated series like "Dora the explorer", teach children through listening and repeating, for example, the character animated when going to perform an action such as jumping, motivates the children to say aloud the word jump and its translation in English, so that they will know the meaning of the words.
Another didactic means to guide children in the learning of another language are coloring books and story books with pictures also the booklets of letters are a great support. Where drawing can know what is called each object and its form in another language.
Through the game and the didactic resources you can guide and encourage children to approach and develop anothers languages.
sources of information
- https://www.ellahoy.es/mama/articulo/3-tips-para-ayudar-a-los-ninos-a-aprender-otro-idioma/256291/
- https://www.guiainfantil.com/1033/videos-y-canciones-infantiles-en-ingles.html
- http://www.siempremama.com/mujer-y-madre/la-edad-adecuada-de-los-ninos-para-aprender-otro-idioma
Me encanta el interés de mi hija en los idiomas, con tan solo 3 añitos ya esta interesadisima en el inglés, de hecho voy a comenzar un curso para aprender más y enseñarla a ella..
Indeed! Language is the major way of expressing ourselves to the people around us.