15 October 2010

LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND LEARNING IN THE PRIMARY EDUCATION FOR COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS

There is a big difference between acquisition and learning of a language. Acquisition is an unconscious picking of language. Any human being would speak only when exposed to it untutored. When a child is in any community can able to speak the local language commonly spoken within the local environment. Any language the child picks become the first language or mother's. No one teaches a child a language she/he picks initially subconsciously.
Learning applies to second language which relates to biligualism. Therefore one way of exposing children to second language is to involve them to a linguistically rich environment of that second language.
The proper utterances of language fluency from learning by children begins by listening,speaking ,reading and writing. Make children listen to a lot of second language so that they can able to master the skill of speaking ,reading and writing.
Children display amazing abilities to become fluent speakers of any language frequently spoken around them.Acquiring of a language is further remarkable to a comparative speed and perfection. People born with innate ideas of a language. Linguistic is grammar or statements saying how language works.
Children are able to master atleast all words spoken correctly and if exposed to two languges concurrently can learn both languages correctly.
Adults aren't capable of learning a language in a natural spontaneous way than children are doing in novelty of using different words in speaking. A human being is able to listen to novel sentences and verbal habits.
Communicative attempts are useful ,but possible sources of errors and despite the fact that communication never perfect, we are usually successful enough with speech to continue using it with having to worry very much about its effectiveness.
Children learn from a very early age to respond to the sounds and tunes which the elders habitually used when talking around.
As time goes on as pupils they master sounds of the second language ,disposal a vocabulary of any extent on is entirely familiar with arrangements of this language system.
Acquisition of the second language is stimulated from spoken than written form.Primary concern is production transmission and reception of the sound of the language its phonitics. Sound quality produced a variety of vowels and consonants of pitch.
Language is the power which force the formation of the culture in any given society,regulating its institutions,clarifying its knowledge and improving on all particular way of seeing things. A child selects and repeats words from memory which later leads the repeated words from attention.
Language acquisition system ,populary known by Chomsky as Language Aquisition Device(LAD) which helps children to recognise basic arrangement of words which tell us about relationships.The teacher dhould use nouns than pronouns for children to easily acquire the language.Children acquire and understand second language before themselves actually use language ,thus reception precedes production for linguistic efficiency.
Active learning is of great significance as it give the learners the chance to do something fluently and then pupils learn by listening and speaking much. An Educational institution should therefore help children who are shy to speak by creating conducive environment for them.
For the best imitators ,the teacher should avoid wrong expressions or incorrect pronunciation because they become fixed to them.Hence should speak as role models to the pupils as perfect as possible. Learning to speak a language is an art teachers shouldn't take for granted.They should create an environment where pupils motivated to listen and speak the intended language needed to be developed.
The use of audio-visual media such as videos and audio cassettes help a teacher with speaking problems especially fluency and expressions. Teaching both first and second languages ended up the child mastered any of the languages. Language of pupils reflect the environmental influences,thus the language spoken around them in their immediate environment. Moreover no child learn second language without the interference of the first language.
Further Reading
Aitchison, J.(1995)Teach yourself linguistics.

Byne ,D.(1979)Teaching Writing Skills.

Moyo ,J.P(1996)Beginning to Learn.

Sprosty,L(1983)Teaching English Language.

Owen, R.(1984)Language Development:An Introduction.

Wilkson,A.(1971)The Foundation of Language:Module Teaching English in Primary.

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