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Teach English in Bǎicheng Zhen - Weifang Shi

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Child development can be defined as the gradual changes that take place in a child from infancy to adolescence. The changes can be grouped into three broad areas that include physical, social, and cognitive changes. From the time a child is born, the change of environment triggers the stimulation of hormones that will enable the child to start adapting slowly to the external environment. The first interaction is that with the mother of the child, who forms a close bond. Afterwards, there are other members the child starts familiarising with. At this early stage, there is a limited mode of communication since the child cannot speak words. Therefore, the mother must use observations on the behaviour of the child to determine any emotional want of the child. As time passes by, the child not only develops physically but the cognitive ability also improves, resulting in more interactions. Between six and twelve months the child is more active since the brain is developing at a faster rate. This is the time you are likely to see the child attempt to do new things such as crawling and touching things on his own. Language development is one of the solutions that break the barrier of communication between the child and other members of the family. Out of the many interactions and the environment, the child is able to grasp a few words and speak them out. Many scholars have studied the factors that language has influence over in relation to the child. Despite everyone having their own approach, they all narrow down to some key findings that are at play during the learning process of a language by the child. The first is the social setting of the environment in which the child is raised. There is a high chance that a child will be able to get the first words from listening to the elders. To validate this claim is a look at two different scenarios where one child is brought up in a well-off family that mostly speaks English, the other child is brought up in a not so well family that mostly uses the local language. The outcome of this will be that each child will use the language that he was introduced to. The cognitive ability of children varies from one to another. At a young stage, the brain of a child is expanding, and more information is being processed at each time. At this stage, therefore, it is the frequency of the language that the child has been exposed to more that will make it stick in his brain. Children will also leverage the visual ability to be able to remember some words when mentioned at a later stage. Conceptualisation is another determinant of how language is developed for children. Children at infancy are more curious and keener to observe certain actions in order to infer the exact meaning. To improve on their language grasp, most teachers when teaching children always encourage them to read words aloud. Apart from making it enjoyable and fun, the children find it easy to memorise the words and this solidifies their understanding further by enabling them to start making short phrases through their conversations. Engaging them in language-rich plays where they can speak out creative words as they act improves their grammar and sentence structure. To conclude it is more beneficial for a child to learn a language than for adults since children are naturally curious and will learn from what they observe and hear, and then try to do it on their own. The child will also strive to learn so that he is able to communicate easily with the mother and therefore this acts as a motivation.


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