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Language
Acquisition Model

Language Acquisition Model

Arabic and English are the languages utilized by the nursery, and our surroundings are primarily arranged to accommodate those languages. Our staff communicates with children, colleagues, and parents using both languages.

Speech, language, and communication are critical areas of development for children. They play a vital role throughout our lives, helping us to understand what is going on around us, communicate our basic needs and feelings, hold conversations, think and learn, develop relationships, solve problems, and more.

They also support many other aspects of development, including cognitive, social, and literacy development. Speech and language development involves four main components:

Phonetics and phonology

learning to pronounce speech sounds, as well as understanding the rules about which sound sequences occur in the language.

Semantics

learning vocabulary and understanding how concepts map onto words.

Pragmatics

Learning social rules for using language, this also includes learning non-verbal communication.
The more you talk to a child (or baby) and support their language, the more progress they will make.

Syntax and morphology

The rules for how to arrange words in sentences (for example, a verb normally comes second, rather than last), and how to change things like tense, voice, or number.