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Principles that encourage language development
?Language development begins at birth and is stimulated through conversations; especially those that are explanatory?. (Beals 2001).
Encouraging and stimulating conversation with your child at dinner time while they are seated in a highchair or laying in bed can often be difficult without visual aids, motifs, or objects. The use of motifs and objects to generate conversation can be used to more easily explain things to your child, promote and provoke reaction, and nurture their understanding through both response and interaction.
Response and interactions create a positive effect on language development, encouraging your child to participate in conversation.
The use of motifs, shapes, and colors, are beneficial in establishing recognition by your child. Aiding recollection and recalling the names of shapes, colors and motifs form the basis of early vocabulary and the cornerstones of initial speech and language development.
Source:
Beals, Diane E. 2001. "Eating and Reading: Links between family conversations with
preschoolers and later language and literacy" In Beginning Literacy
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