So, how to guide your baby to learn a language?
First of all, we should understand that children's language learning theory goes through two stages, namely, the stage of receiving information and the stage of expressing information. Learning a language means learning spoken and written language, which can be roughly divided into four steps: learning to obey, learning to speak, learning to read and learning to write.
In the process of baby's growth and development, it is generally to learn the meaning of single words and sentences first, then gradually evolve into complex words and sentences, and finally say complete sentences to express your thoughts.
Therefore, language education for children requires us to expose children to language step by step, and should not force children or accommodate them. In this way, the child's language can slowly develop to the top.
When the baby is one year old, it is still in the stage of learning words. At this time, he can only understand his own name or the crying of his parents. Babies often make overlapping sounds in the process of language learning, such as "hug" and "Fan Fan". Parents can often see that when the baby wants to eat, he will look at the rice bowl and shout "Fan Fan", then open his mouth and wait for his parents to feed him, and sometimes even combine some body language to express his thoughts.
At the age of one and a half, the baby can express himself with two or three word combinations. Babies in this period usually use verbs on the basis of overlapping, such as "eat" and "sleep" ...
When will the baby say simple sentences? The answer is that when the baby is two years old, you can use such a simple sentence as "mother hugs the baby".
Babies speak in this way, which we generally call "children's language". Some parents should not talk to their baby in children's language all the time, because they think it is cute to talk in children's language, which will delay the baby's transition to the stage of being fully capable of talking.
At this time, parents must insist on talking to their baby in complete sentences. This process will be very difficult, but it will help the baby to cross this level smoothly and be good for the baby.
Parents need to do this to help their baby develop language:
1, patience. The baby needs his parents to read him a word or sentence repeatedly, and it may even take more than a day to learn it. At this time, parents need to be patient to teach their babies. Impatience will make your baby lose interest in learning a language, and even have resistance to language learning.
2, a lot of information, say what you see. Although the baby doesn't know much about anything now, and he can't fully understand what mom and dad said, mom and dad can increase the amount of information when talking to the baby. On the one hand, the baby will feel that talking is a very interesting thing, and his parents like talking to him very much, so he will prefer learning languages. On the other hand, the increase of information can stimulate the language learning function of the baby's brain and help the baby understand these meanings faster.
3. Help your baby's mouth move. In other words, by pronouncing different syllables, the baby's mouth and tongue can be moved, and their flexibility can be exercised to prepare for the future opening.
Parents need to maintain standards in their daily lives. Maybe some elders around you, such as grandparents, are all speaking dialects, so it is not too late for the baby to learn Mandarin in the footsteps of his parents, and then learn dialects after the baby has mastered the standard pronunciation. Therefore, in the early stage of language learning, parents' exemplary role is great.