Stages of Childs Language Development Final

Ronah Vera B. Tobias MAELT – 1

Prof. Agnes T. Baay ELT 200 – Dev’t. of Langage A!"isition

#tages of Langage Deve$o%&ent 1. Babb$ing' The Babb$ing' The first stage of language development is known as the prelinguistic, babbling or cooing stage. During this period, which typically lasts from the age of three to nine months, babies begin to make vowel sounds such as oooooo and oooooo and aaaaaaa. aaaaaaa. By five months, infants typically begin to babble and add consonant sounds to their sounds such as ba-ba-ba, ba-ba-ba, ma-ma-ma or ma-ma-ma or da-da-da. da-da-da.

2. #ing$e (or)s' The (or)s' The second stage is known as the one-word or holophase stage of language development. round the age of 1! to 1" months, children will begin to produce their first real words. #hile children are only capable of producing a few, single words at this point, it is important to reali$e that they are able to understand considerably more. %nfants begin to comprehend language about twice as fast as they are able to produce it.

". T*o (or)s' The (or)s' The third stage begins around the age of 1& months, when children begin to use two word sentences. These sentences usually consist of 'ust nouns and verbs, such as (#here daddy)( and (*uppy big+(

. M$ti+*or) #enten!es' round #enten!es' round the age of two, children begin to produce short, multi-word sentences that have a sub'ect and predicate. or eample, a child might say (/ommy is nice( or (#ant more candy.(  s children age, they continue to learn more new words every day. day. By the time they enter school around the age of five, children typically have a vocabulary of 1!,!!! words or more. Referen!es' Berk, 0. . 2!!34. 5hapter 6 - Child Development  &th  &th ed4. *earson.

B'orkland, B. 7. 16684. 0anguage development and cognition. %n David . B'orkland d.4, Children's thinking: Developmental function and individual individual differences. *acific differences. *acific 9rove, 5: Brooks;5ole.

Deckner, Deckner, D. ., damson, 0. B., < Bakeman, 7. 2!!"4.7hythm in mother-infant interactions.Infancy, Infancy, 4, 2!1-21=. 4, 2!1-21=.

ernald, . 16&84. our-month old infants prefer to listen to motherese. Infant ehavior and Development, !, 1&1-1&2. !, 1&1-1&2.

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