Characteristics & Language Development Stages in Children
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Characteristics of Young Learners
Young learners have distinct characteristics that influence their learning process:
- Short attention and concentration span
- Weak memory
- Very active and dynamic
- Respond to praise
- Imaginative but have difficulties distinguishing between reality and imagination
- Enjoy learning through games
- Like rewards and prizes
- Love imitating, playing with sounds, and repeating things
- Love working in groups
- Competitive
- Not shy, but sometimes embarrassed in front of unknown people
- Acquire language through hearing it
- Barely have background knowledge of the world
- Don’t have literacy and numeracy skills (they start learning it at school)
- Don’t have a clear motivation
Development of Language Stages
First Language Acquisition
- Pre-Linguistic Stages