Concepts of Language Development and Language Disability With Evidence Base Analysis

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume V, Issue IX, September 2021 | ISSN 2454–6186

Concepts of Language Development and Language Disability With Evidence Base Analysis

Samuel Senyo Dogoe¹, Eunice Awoenam Dogoe², Christina Christodoulou³ & Ivy Ama Kpodoe^4
1,3University of Birmingham England UK
²Tutor, St. Teresa’s College of Education, Ghana
⁴Department of Education and Psychology, University of Cape Coast – Ghana

Abstract: Language and communication are important parts of every human being to function well in a civilised society he or she found himself or herself. Any disruption of these needs could amount to impairment of “normal” functioning of the individual in the society or community. This article sought to look what is meant by language and its development at various stages of child’s development. The article evidently looked at form or grammar; how it is developed in a neurotypical child or “normal” child. Attention is also paid to how children could be confronted with difficulties. The write up illuminates what is referred to as language disability and specific language impairment.
The write up explore cross cultural patterns of grammar development or formation. The dominant aspect of English grammar is the word order. In other languages the dominant aspect is the morphology and the grammatical inflections. For example, Italian language gives a lot importance to bound inflections. Thus, it depends on where a language focuses and the origin of that particular language.
However, this work main focus is on concept of English language development and language disability but being an evidence based work, an example of Italian language has been mentioned to support few points. This work is organized in thematic areas and literature in form of books, articles and journals related to this topic were reviewed as well.

Key words: language development, language disability, grammar Specific Language Impairment (SLI), holophrases.

I. INTRODUCTION

Language is something that separates human beings from the animals, but also from our fellows. To learn to speak a language, you have to learn the rules that govern this language. Nevertheless, language is not only rules, it is creativity acquiring and using the rules.(Tomasello, 2000) definition of the language is not so simple, as saying that children make babbling and cooing, so they learn to speak. (Dockrell and Messer, 1999) These are only samples of language development.
Language is a code which is used to express ideas about the world through conventional system of arbitrary signals for communication (Halliday 1975) or disseminating ideas from encoder to decoder thus from a speaker to a listener.
Language is used to express thought patterns of the individuals, their belief systems and desires. The thoughts express in language result from our perception which comes from aspect of what we see hear and feel at the moment. Usually these thoughts come from the knowledge stored in the individual’s memory about event and relations in the world.
Language as code is a way of representing one thing by another. Thus given an object, event or relationship which can

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