CHILD LEARNING FRAMEWORK

Child Learning Framework

Child Learning Framework

Introduction

A child adopts the language which he started to hear since his/her birth. This is a natural phenomenon, which is associated with every normal human being living in this world. Infants are born in this world with few senses, which merely tells, him or her eating, drinking time and some internal functioning. However, by the passage of time he learns from his surrounding, the most significant thing a child learns is the language. This study will analyze a conversation between the child and an adult (see appendix for the conversation), and will examine the data with reference to:

Meanings the child is attempting to make; (i.e. the content)

The child's development of oral language;

The functions for which the child is using language;

The EYLF learning outcomes the child is working towards and

Features of the adult's language which may be helping or hindering the child's attempts at making meaning.

Discussion and Analysis

Meanings the child is attempting to make

From the conversation, I have extracted that the child was feeling comfortable in participating the conversation when his interest would be asked (Wolfram, Adger and Christian, 1999). However, from the conversation the child was trying to share only his thoughts about the toys, as I am not familiar with him, so there is no point the child would have listen me. Although, till the movement I started to talk him about his toys, he seems quiet uncomfortable with my presence, but when his toys became part of his discussion he started to show what his toys can do. The loin of the child was angry and his airplane was flying and crashing with the wall every time, his car was the fastest. In short, it can be said that, by the age of 4, this child has only learn to explore different creatures and functioning of different things by the aid of toys. The words of the child I talked with, was quite clear, as I can understand what he was trying to say. The child message can easily be decoded by the sense and thus, in every message of his interest he was only trying to inform me and show me what his different toys can do.

The child's development of oral language

Oral language is part of a complex communication system that develops among humans. Scholars have called language development in children as development of communicative competence. This process starts from the first weeks of a newborn baby, looking at faces, smiles and other gestures, and listening to linguistic interpretations given by the adult (Owocki & Goodman, 2002). These verbalizations are extremely important to create further development. During the language development, process evolve different communicative skills such as intentionality, inter subjectivity, which transmits and share a state mental reciprocity, (that is participating in a dialogue) culminating in the so-called interactive routines where the adult and child participate in games of give and take inserting vocalizations (Wolfram, Adger and Christian, 1999). The first year of life is very crucial in language ...