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Writing Assignment: Language Acquisition Selina A. Vincent Rowan Cabarrus Community College 250: Psychology Professor Candice Mills 25 September 2023

Writing Assignment: Language Acquisition "Language begins when newborns cry, and by the age of two, they produce sentences" (Beger, 2022, p.92). One of the first movements that infants start using is pointing at and addressing other people. By the time they are 12 months old, most infants can point with their little index finger and look where others are pointing (Beger, 2022). By the time they are 12 months old, most newborns have mastered the ability to point with their little index finger and will frequently follow others' cues. Babbling or talking is another means of communication employed by infants. Infants observe speech patterns, such as which sounds are frequently combined, before they pronounce their first words (Beger, 2022, p. 93). They start to recognize spoken words around the seventh month and strive to repeat them. For instance, if a parent said, "bottle," the infant would begin to say, "Baba." To help their children communicate, parents may apply these techniques by "encouraging the noises they make when they do make them in responding to their pointing to encourage a way to communicate." The Naming Explosion The Name Explosions is once you have mastered the first 50 words, you can speak in explosive outbursts. As names for people, places, or things, many of the first words are nouns (Beger, 2022, p. 95). Toddlers combine these words to create meaning for speech in their speech using their language. This can be shown by the phrase "dada, mama, nana, papa"(Beger, 2022, p. 95). Corrected In order to promote correct communication, parents would respond with "mommy reads books" when their children would say "mommy read book" (Berger, 2022, p.96). Theories of Language There are three language theories: Theory 1: Young Children Need to Learn. This concept says that learning is an acquired process of step-by-step association and reinforcement

(Beger, 2022, p.96). According to behaviorists, children learn language more quickly if their parents speak to them frequently because repetition and reinforcement help to build the association between words and objects (Beger, 2022, p.97). For instance, parents with highly verbal kids educate their kids' language through early singing, explaining, listening, responding, and reading (Beger, 2022, p. 97). According to theory 2, social cues encourage newborn language. According to this theory, babies communicate because we are social beings who depend on one another for happiness and survival. All human infants want to learn language and grammar to fit into society (Beger, 2022, p. 97). Screen time during infancy may be unsafe, according to developmentalists, as it lessens the social connection needed to develop communication skills (Beger, 2022, p. 97). Therefore, whatever the amount of time spent in front of a computer; a responsible, caring connection cannot be replaced. Language development depends heavily on direct social interaction (Beger, 2022, p. 97). Infant self-teaching is the 3rd Theory. No one needs to acquire a language other than their own because language develops from a specific gene (FOXP2) that is involved in brain maturation and the human drive to imitate, which is a means of survival (Beger, 2022, p.98). Thus, experience-dependent language learning is made possible by human genes in infancy (Beger, 2022, p.98). The theory that best explains how young children acquire language would be Theory 1: Because babies learn best from adults, adults should instruct young children. Today, I know everything because someone showed me, guided me, and explained how to do it. I believe that I would not be the person I am today if I had not been taught or had not gone to school and been taught through instruction.

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I do not remember my first words, but I search for more commonly said words that sound similar. Which would be mom, dad, fall, bye, hello, no, dog, baby, woof, or banana (Erad, 2019)? When children first speak, I find that they like to say and have a tendency to grasp words that refer to noises, social customs, body parts, and significant individuals in their lives (Erad, 2019).

References Berger, K.S. (2022). Invitation to the life span (5th ed.). Worth Publishers. Erard, M. (2019, April 30). The mystery of babies’ first words . The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/04/babies-first-words-babbling-or-actual- language/588289/

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