Psychology And Language Development docx.

Running head: PSYCHOLOGY AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT: DISCUSSION POST
PSYCHOLOGY AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT: DISCUSSION POST
Name of the Student:
Name of the University:
Author note:

PSYCHOLOGY AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT: DISCUSSION POST1
Introduction
A number of theories, perspectives and perceptions have been evidenced for the purpose
of understanding the development of language and speech in children (Conte & Ornaghi, 2019).
However my personal belief is that while social environments and parental influences play a key
role in a child’s language development, the process of language association in children, may be
in fact biologically acquired and wired.
Discussion
Example and Theory
Upon close examination of the video directed by Heather Cook, it can be observed that
the children’s language acquisition process and expression can largely be linked to the
theoretical perspectives of language development by Santrock (2015), which evidences a positive
association between a child’s vocabulary and the prevalent socioeconomic demographics and
verbal communication initiated by his or her parents. Key examples demonstrating both the
influence of biological wiring and social environment in a child’s language development is,
firstly where children begun to speak 2 word sentences by the age of 2 years without any
teaching possibly due to biological wiring) and secondly, where the four year old can effectively
differentiate incorrect and correct sentences as compared to a three year old (possible both
biological and social influence).
Position, Advocacy and Rationale
Thus, with respect to the theory and current evidence based literature, I believe the act of
parents reading out to their children is far from harmful and rather a beneficial and fulfilling act
to be engaged in. One can draw from relevant developmental theories to rationalize this