Learning To Really Learn: Through Oral Communication

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production in the child depending what he/she may learn in his home environment. When school begins so does the self-consciousness of the child start to be affected; the child may not even know how to express him/her self effectively in an out of home setting. (Children and oral communication) This is why the teacher's role in child development is very tricky and from careful research by Strickland and Loban we now know the action needed to be taken by the schoolteachers. Testing to see if listening comprehension is going at a satisfying rate can also help the child along his path of effectively learning speech. Learning oral communication has a lot of benefits to our children. If we want them to excel their best we need to make the most out of the resources that will help them along.
Before any form of communication is fostered by the child infants already have the means to perceive and produce speech.(Lois Bloom 1970) Although crying holds no arbitrary meaning to the child ...

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cries, coo, whines, and grunts into the conditional sounds of speech. Sounds of speech bring the receptive and expressive skills to work through listening and speaking words. The sender of a message transmits his her feelings, ideas, and attitudes and the receiver interpret the message according to his/her own experiences. Learning a word means many things that bear on social, cognitive, cultural and linguistic matters. Cognitively to Learn a word is to learn how to express a mental meaning, something the infant has in mind that is directed to object events and relations in the world. Socially learning a word is learning how persons in a society make public what is otherwise private ...

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