Oral Language Development and the Impact of Children's Literature

This article discusses the importance of oral language development and the impact of children's literature on language skills. It explores the components of oral language and how children learn it. It also highlights the benefits of children's literature in developing oral language, cultural understanding, emotional intelligence, creativity, and overall personality.

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All the children nowadays learn the rules and regulations of their language from a
very early age by the use and overtime without any formal instruction. One of the sources of
learning is genetics. Apart from this, the human beings are born with skills of speaking. They
have a natural skill of figuring out the rules of language by the environment. The
environment is one of the most vital factors. Often the young children use those languages
that they hear people speak around them. Children often try to imitate them and learn it.
Along with learning to walk, learning to talk also requires a lot of time for practice and
development in day-to-day situations. It has been seen that if someone constantly tries to fix a
child speech it can get unproductive. Many researches show that children are born to speak
and also to socially interact even before they are able to use words they talk through gestures
there only point is to make connections with others. Language is a thing that comes through
genes or environment or by a child’s own thinking (Bygate, 2013).
What is oral language and how do they learn it?
Oral language is a very complicated system that is actually related to sound and I
usually made of three important components syntactic, semantics and phonological. First, one
is the syntactic component; this actually includes the regulations that are needed to unite the
morphemes interested in sentences. As soon as the child is able to use two monochromes
together, they are thought to be learning how to use two monochromes together in order to
convey a meaning. Second is the semantic component: this includes things such as
morphemes that mean the smallest unit of meanings that can be combined together in order to
make up sentence or even words. For example a dictionary which have language components
and the words which are important. Lastly the phonological component: this involves
combination of two sounds. For example, the speakers of English. In this, people are not
aware of the rules but they have ability to pronounce and understand. Oral language lay the
groundwork for reading and the writing skills in children that help in developing as they enter
the progress through school(Bygate, Skehan & Swain, 2013). They make use of oral language
in all the aspects of the education. They use it when they contact to their teachers or to the
peers and also throughout their lives from the time that they grow to their adulthood. If
children have a solid foundation they are able to become more successful readers and even
strong communicators which also builds up their confidence and give them a sense of
wellbeing. Oral language has the six following areas:

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Phonology: this means the sound system with language. This system is used for the
basic speaking and listening, which the young children develop. It has things such as rhymes,
segmenting sound that are manipulating. It is one of the most complex levels as well.
Vocabulary: this focus on both receptive and expressive vocabulary, Expressive
refers to the word that the children use on an everyday basis while talking ad writing while
the repetitive vocab means the words that children understand
Grammar: As the children start learning, the oral skills of language they also try to
develop acceptance of grammar, it is a set of rules that are preside over by the grouping of
phrases and words the which are then used in sentences—and how sentences are combined
into paragraphs.
Morphology: it is occasionally used as a separation of syntax or language
morphology is a thing, which is always determined on the small units of the meaning in a
word and the rules of how those words are formed. For instance, if one examines the word
“cats,” a basic examination would show there are four phonemes (/k/, /a/, /t/ and /s/).
Pragmatics: it is said to be hidden curriculum in a classroom. It focuses on social use
of language. It includes the social norms. In some of the classroom settings the students who
lack the background experience, feature to the cultural differences in some of the situations.
Understanding different situations help the students to be more successfully in
comprehensions at the later stages, which includes both the reading and listening
comprehension.
Communication: written and oral communication is known as a very significant
skill. For example, narrative story telling also follows a precise format. This part is those
parts that describe the main characters, the resolution and the conflicts. In this reading use of
a story, structure is important in command to write narrative, understand, and read it. This
form of writing follows a lot of different and of structures, which are persuasive, cause,
effect, difference and compare. It is important for the students to appreciate these structures
by understanding the comprehension. it is first very important for them to comprehend and
tell stories in different formats before they can begin to write those kinds of stories.
Importance of Children’s Literature in oral language

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Some of the important strategies of oral learning are the first strategy is to encourage
the conversation with the students or young children. Each new interaction gives chance to
the students to practice language. Some of the young children might need guidance and it is
important for the parents or the teachers to encourage them. Next strategy is to maintain eye
contact (Johnson & Rodriguez, 2013). It is important for the students to learn the importance
of maintaining eye contact from the starting as it helps in attracting audience. Next strategy is
to ask the children to speak loudly and more clearly, it is very important to ask the students to
talk loudly as this encourages them to hold attention of people and helps them in oral learning
easily as they can hear what they speak (Zucker, Cabell et al, 2013).
Children literature includes stories, books, and magazines the modern children
literature has two different ways: intended age of the reader or the genre. Children literature
includes a wide range of oral tradition as well. Aral learning was the thing, which was used
even before printing media came into place. There is no definition as such for the children’s
literature it can be defined by anything that a children reads or does.
The first thing is that the children fiction provides students with a chance to react to
the literature and helps them to expand the cognitive domain as well. Quality literature not
only allows the readers to know everything but also helps them to experience the two
different points of views and based on the two different point of view the student gets an able
to analyse the literature and the children are able to summarise it in their own way(Cawley,
Hull & Rousculp, 2010). It is said that wordless pictures books are one of the best ways for
teaching oral and written language. Children readings such as ball for daisy, the yellow
umbrella and the red book are some of the examples, which can be used to develop, own
dialogs of the stories. This helps in making the cognitive skills of students strong and helps

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them to build opinions and express ideas about the plot of the wordless books(Powell &
Diamond et al, 2010).
Secondly, the children’s literature provides the students with a chance to learn about
the culture. The children not only learn about their own culture but about the culture of others
as well (Bland, 2013). These values are actually very important for the children to learn
because these things help them to develop the positive attitude towards all the cultures and it
is an important for both social and personal development (Rempel, 2012). It is although very
important to decide which books to choose while teaching the children about the culture as
there many books that contain wrong information about the culture of certain places. Some of
the stories such as the story called Eric from the tales of outer suburbia are a very touching
story about a family who stays with a foreign exchange student and how they learn to stay
with the cultural differences it gives a very positive message to the children about the
acceptance of the cultures between different people. Another important book that discusses
the cultural believes is Going Home, it is a story about a Mexican immigrant family with the
children who were born in U.S. in the story the children realise the importance of parents and
that is what the story wants to depict (Lyster & Saito, 2010).

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Third thing that children literature helps in is that it develops emotional intelligence in
the children. The stories have the power to uphold moral and emotional expansion in. the
literature of student helps in maintain the moment of crisis, when the font make moral
decision this gives students a sense of decision making (Snyder & Brown, 2012). For
example in the book guji guji, it is a story about a crocodile that is adopted in the family if
duck, eventually he has to decide between revealing the adopted family or leaving to his own
species and he decides to stay true to his viewpoint by not betraying its family (Van Moere,
2012). Next book is the scar, which teaches the children how to respond to grief, and it shows
a boy whose mother has died. This book requires a knowledge and skill of touching
astuteness, as many young children do not know death. The subject of death is actually only
understandable by adults. Another book that encourages emotional intelligence is Selma,
which shows the struggle of young sheep to be happy (Lyster, Saito & Sato, 2013). It is a
thoughtful story with a picture book and it challenge students to think about happiness. Next
book is big box; it is a story about a child whose freedom is taken away by putting him into a

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box and this encourage the students to think deeper about an individual’s feelings(Medwell &
Wray 2013).
Children literature also encourages creativity. In this, the literature helps in nurturing
and expanding the imagination(Dockrell, Stuart & King, 2010). The house in the night shows
the creativity of a young girl and the dreams she has about flying in the dark. Another
example is of an amazing pop up music book zin zin zin and look closer, these are two books
that totally encourages the students and the children’s to learn about the art and music. They
actually build a child’s art and creativity and promote the imagination of young children.

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Children literature also foresters personality and focuses in overall development of
young children. Children are very immature during the formative years and the children
literature can assist them expand to be caring, friendly and intelligent individuals. Jean Piaget
a developmental psychologist says that when students move from the operation stage to the
cognitive stage they become less egoistic while when they move from pre-school to
kindergarten they become entirely focused on themselves and so on when children develop
and grow older they try to obtain the feelings into account and also the viewpoints of
others. Children literature can also help in social development of children as it encourages the
students to accept people despite the differences. For example, book like tango makes three
and molly’s family are some of the stories that teach students to be open minded in diverse t
types of families and that love is what makes a family (Gee & Hayes, 2011). Children
literature also teaches a student to make relationship with the person, which gives
encouragement to social contact. There is another book named Loop the Loop in this a
young child befriends an elderly person and share a good bond. Literature also encourages
the children to be friendly as well as encourages them to be good citizens. Children literature
is value based because it is a tradition it means passing on the heritage from one to the next
generation. Children literature is very valuable at both home and school. The parents and
teachers should both promote the students to read literature as it helps in responding to the
nature also it helps in building cultural knowledge, creativity, social and personal
development (Chambless, 2012).

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