English Language Learning (Native Speakers)
Stage/Age
Language Overall
Phonology
Morphology
Syntax
Semantics
Implications on reading and writing
Practical Approaches
Birth -3 mo.
Cries, responds to tone, attentive to special sounds, and begins to vocalize.
Reflexive and diverse cries, coos and gurgles.
Verbal play, some consonants, laughing.
No understanding
Sounds or intensity as opposed to meaning.
Music and talk to child
Double syllables, MAMA, tunefully vocalize
Vocalizes pleasure and pain; initiates speech, reproduces babbles.
Increased sounds and imitation
Very little understanding
Truck red; hungry eat, etc.
Use of words and instructi8ons, jargon and jabber before frequent
Imitates some words, asks questions using intonation, vast improvement in tone and sound.
Stage I morphemes; nomination,
Most language is noun based, finger pointing, usually sentences are 2 words.
Action + Agent, Agent + Object, etc. (Daddy is laughing, I push the truck)
Very imitative stage
Show pictures of nouns and ask questions
2-4 years
Talks to self, asks questions, begins using sentences, large amount of vocabulary acquisition
May omit some phrases or parts of phrases, uses final consonants most of the time fewer omissions and learns to blend.
Present, progressive, location, learning some articles
Learning word order, 1/3 of all spoken words are nouns, utterances have few grammatical markers (no an, the, that); grows to 2-4-word phrases
I am here; Cat on box
Beginning to look at symbols
Help child "trace" letters with hands, show how to hold pencil or chalk, encourage mimicry
5 years
Fluent speech, recognizes past, present and future
Masters most consonants and improves intonation.
Mastering articles; past tense, third person
5-6-word phrases, uses contractions, possessive, past tense, progressive verbs (jumping, running).
An apple, a book, my dog, she went away, he brought the puppy
Move now from symbols (letters) to words and word combinations.
Spend time with pronunciation; cat -- c -- ah -- t, expand to write cat using pictographs
6 years
Has learned to pronounce and sound out, more fluent and confident in speaking.
Voiceless (th, sh, ch) are mastered;...
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