Verbalization on Children Language Development
by Verbal stimulation is very important for young children because it helps them acquire language in their brain. Children at the first year of age do not learn language but they receive and acquire language from their caregivers.
Verbal stimulation on children language development
Children acquire language from their parents. They listen what their parents say. Their brain finds and analyzes rules of the language intonation, syntaxes, and vocabularies. Hearing organs are parts of important organs in language development on children. Children who suffer from hearing problems will face language retardation.
L.G Alexander, Practice and Progress, Longman, Stated that learning language had to follow these rules. He said that nothing should have been spoken before it had been heard; nothing should have been read before it had been spoken, and nothing should have been written before it had been read. From these principles, let’s compare with children language development at the early age. Dr. Soetjinigsih, DSAK, University of Udayana, Bali said that verbal stimulation was a very important aspect in language development on children at the first year of growth.
Parents or caregivers have significant roles to stimulate language development on children. Their language will be their children’s model because children copy all forms of conversation. Talking to 0,0 to 1,0 year old children stimulates children’s language acquisition device in the brain. Language acquisition device (LAD) was stated by Mc. Neil and Chomsky in 1968. Copying is an acquiring process in children’s brain. Mothers who are talkative or talk a lot to their young children tend to have talkative children. As parents, we can create as natural as situation to stimulate our children language development. We have to talk clearly and in good intonation to other members of family so that our children listen and copy all models of our conversation.
Telling names of things around the house can be another way to stimulate children verbally. When children want to take a bath ask them in clear and stable voice “Let’s take a bath! “ Children hear the command and try to understand it. The more often parents talk the more input children receive. My 12,0 months old daughter can response my order. When I say to her “stand up!” she stands up and when I say “get to sleep” she finds her pillow and lay down.
Children acquire language from their environment. They have language competence before they can speak any language. They can response orders from their parents when they are about 11,0 to 12,0 months old. They can not talk because their articulation organs are imperfect. Vigotsky said that children have pre-linguistic phase. Children have acquired language models and language rules at this phase. This competence is called inner speech. Inner speech becomes external speech when children can use the language to talk and it still exists because it is the foundation of the external speech.
It is important to know that all the processes only take place to normal children. Children with hearing disorder are different. They need special treatment. Normal children will imitate models of their parents’ language. Parents should give the best samples because they are models so that children will only receive the best inputs to the brain.
Bibliography
Fauzi Ahmad, 2003. Children Language Development, The Faculty of Letters and Culture, “Yogyakarta “ University of Technology.
DSAK, Soetjiningsih,1955. Tumbuh Kembang Anak, Bali, Universtas Udayana.
Tampubolon, 1933. Mengembangkan Minat dan Kebiasaan Membaca pada Anak, Bandung, Angkasa
LG Alexander, Practice and Progress, Longman
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