English Language Development in Childhood: Elise's Case (Birth to Ten)

This essay analyzes the English language development of Elise, an Australian child from birth to ten years old, considering the influence of her working-class family and socio-economic environment. It applies linguistic theories, such as Chomsky's and Skinner's perspectives, to understand her language acquisition process. The essay examines the role of culture, social interactions with family and peers, and the impact of early childhood education, including preschool and schooling, on Elise's literacy and numeracy skills. It also discusses the importance of academic writing conventions in communicating ideas effectively. The essay highlights how Elise's language learning is shaped by her environment and the various support systems available to her, including childcare services and the Australian education system. The analysis emphasizes the interconnectedness of language, culture, and social context in a child's overall development.

How a child from birth
to ten will learn to
speak English?

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................2
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................2
Apply knowledge of culture, language and literacy concepts and theories...........................2
Analyse the selected child’s language learning and development.........................................3
Communicate ideas in academic writing................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Child development refers to the overall sequence of the development of children regarding
their language, emotional changes that leads to occur among child since their birth. This process
is considered as the child progress from the dependency on their parents and other guardians in
order to enhance independence. In early years the life of children is very important in regard of
health and development (De Wilde, Brysbaert and Eyckmans, 2020). For this, the healthy
development of children depicts suitable abilities undertaking the prominent health care needs in
order to grow up for the social, emotional and educational needs. Along with this, children
acquire language with the help of interaction as not only the parents and other adults but also the
children in order to grow up in the normal households by which they acquire the suitable
language which is being used around them.
MAIN BODY
Apply knowledge of culture, language and literacy concepts and theories
Language is the basic method of communication but there are also several methods in
order to communicate without the effective use of language. When it is asked to effectively
define regarding the language they need to think in verbal and written context regarding the
suitable symbols and sounds to convey meaning. For this, the Australian children firstly learn
English language in order to convey and speak to other people as it is their mother language. In
this context, children tend to spend their first year while making sense of the sounds around them
that does not make sense to them (Curdt-Christiansen and La Morgia, 2018). Research shows
that since birth babies begin to learn language with the help of sounds and after their birth they
tends to make difference among mother language and another language by showing their
capability.
After 11 months’ babies begin to say some words which has been recorded in their brain as
children from monolingual English households from which Elise belong are specialised to the
procedure of the sounds of English and not to the sounds of mother language and other
unfamiliar language. In regard of this, the babies from the bilingual English households are also
specialised to the process of both languages which is their mother language and other (Cole and
Flexer, 2019). In this context, culture plays an important role for the overall development and
growth of children since their birth to age ten in order to speak English language and

communicate with their guardians properly. For this, suitable theory is used to study and analyse
the behaviour of children.
Chomsky’s Theories:
As per this theory, various fundamentals are being studied and observed as there has been
a deep structure and surface in every sentence as no matter what only language matter. For this,
the development of language seems quite complicated as it leads to express the same thing with
different word order. It leads to develop the deep structure in the same manner by which
language development which is obvious and not the simple thing with the effective use of words
(Bergey and et. al., 2018).
For this, they tend to use suitable words and the overall structure which are being refined
over the prominent course of time. It leads to change and evolve on the suitable surface but the
deeper structures also remain same as this theory focus over the transformation of generative
grammar theory. Moreover, this theory leads to effectively contribute towards the linguistic
studies in order to have universal grammar development (Murray and Christison, 2019). For this,
the human brain leads to contain mechanism for the acquisition of language in order to share the
same structure at the effective surface and structure.
B.F Skinner’s Behaviourist perspective:
This theory is related with problem of language for the different perspective that dictated
by the overall environment and the behaviour for the suitable response to the external stimuli by
operant conditioning which is the process by which behaviour changes with both the positive and
negative reinforcement (Ribot, Hoff and Burridge, 2018). It is considered as the language
acquisition in which parents tends to enforce the correct usage of word in front of their children
with the positive facial and verbal reactions. They also lead to play large role for the verbal
behaviour that undertake the suitable concept of effective functioning of words and their
meanings as well.
Analyse the selected child’s language learning and development
Language development is the important part of child growth and development as it leads to
support the abilities of child for having the effective communication skills. They also lead to
support the ability in order to express and understand the feelings, solve problems, develop and
maintain relationships. In context of Elise, the best way to motivate the language development of

child is to talk more to them regarding their interest and also tends to show their overall interest
in order to babble and use words effectively.
Furthermore, the learning and development of children also depend on their early years
which is the integral to their overall well-being and also undertake the long term impact for the
job prospects and their overall participation regarding the connection with wider community
(Wilson, 2020). In this context, preschool plays an important role in order to help children for the
effective preparation for starting the school by developing the learning related skills like express
their thoughts, adapt or grasp suitable behaviour and develop social competence. In this context,
starting at the school is the key milestone for the learning life of child by which they need to
have effective adjustment to the new environment.
In this context, schooling is the essential factor for the development of children as it is the
important skills for the educational and learning for the social skills like friendship building,
teamwork, communication and healthy self-esteem. For this, schooling is essential for children in
order to develop suitable skills and for this, attendance patterns and also have been found
regarding the development of their early life (Iriani, Syahdan and Nuriadi, 2018). In this context,
literacy and numeracy form the part of the cornerstone of the formal education for the young
Australians as they are the fundamental building blocks for the children’s educational
achievement and their lives for the external school and engagement with society and their future
employment prospects.
Child care services tends provide education and care to children which are aged of 0-10
considering the long day care, family day care, outside school hours, occasional care and other
care considering the supporting services of children with the additional needs for the specific
situation. In this, context the Australian Government is responsible for paying suitable attention
to child care and also provide fund to the state and territory governments for the early childhood
education and support for the regulation, assessment and quality improvement under the national
quality framework (Simeone and et. al., 2018). For this, the suitable role and responsibilities of
state and territory government vary regarding the jurisdictions and also undertake suitable
funding to offer preschool services by providing suitable care to children. They also consider the
effective funding to support activities under the National Quality Framework.

Communicate ideas in academic writing
Academic writing represents the formal objective and technical things as it is formal in order
to avoid casual or conversational language like informal vocabulary and contractions. Academic
writing is the impersonal objective that leads to avoid direct references to the feelings of people
rather than focusing over the suitable objects, ideas and facts. It also depicts the different
disciplines in order to have various styles and structure of writing and communicating things
(Chiswick and Miller, 2018). In terms of this, the formal language undertakes the effective
making for the more formal ways and undertake several aspects for the academic writing like
choose formal context instead of informal vocabulary, they also need to avoid contractions like
use “did not” instead of “didn’t” and use effectively positive and negative factors such as proof
or wrong by evaluating more cautious like strong evidence and less convincing.
It also undertakes the effective language by considering academic writing that need suitable
objectives and impersonal feelings in order to present the suitable opinion that include
interpreting findings, evaluate the theory, develop argument and critique others work. It leads to
undertake the knowledge and development of technical language for the development of formal
personality. It depicts that an individual need to develop large vocabulary for the suitable
concepts and particular specialisation for the writing and vocabulary (Curdt-Christiansen and La
Morgia, 2018). In this context, communication process undertakes the listening, reading and
viewing perspective by which the language modes and communication process tends to decode
and interpret the suitable section by visualising and multimodal texts. Thus, this procedure leads
to share the receptive approach to the imaginative, informative and persuasive texts as they tend
to involve the retrieving the literal details in order to make and support inferences and evaluate
information and suitable perspective.
Along with this, the speaking and writing language modes undertake the suitable process of
communication that leads to express and spoke visual and multimodal texts by undertaking
prominent things like augmentative and alternative ways of communication. As it leads to share
the productive approach for the informative text to the digital forms regarding the extensive
range of workplace and literacy objectives (Cole and Flexer, 2019). Within the Australian
curriculum, English language provide students with the broad level of conceptual understanding
and its significance in the school. In regard of this, the body knowledge leads to draw effective
historical and linguistic accounts of the English language in order to draw attention to the

suitable ways by which languages change to the distinction among the use of language and its
system. For this, the suitable accounts tend to acknowledge the capability of students in order to
use grammar that tends to exceed the overall ability of children by reflecting on their grammar.
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion, it has been analysed that child development is important in
regard of their future growth considering the physical, personality, language and emotional
aspects. In this context, learning English from the young age show an incredible impact on the
cerebral development of child as by this they tend to acquire the great capacity for the suitable
concentration and also become agile to solve suitable problem. To develop language is beneficial
for children by which they are able to effectively perform several tasks at a time.

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