EARLY CHILDHOOD CARE AND DEVELOPMENT

EARLY CHILDHOOD CARE AND DEVELOPMENT 3(2+1)

Lesson 04: Development of Language skills through ECE

Speaking

For this skill, the specific objectives are:

• Vocabulary development
• Development of verbal expression
• Development of fluent and correct speech

Children get a great deal of opportunity to listen in schools and homes which are mostly adult centred, but they get little or no opportunity for them to express their own ideas and feelings spontaneously and freely. So, the verbal skills do not get developed to the extent they should.

Therefore, activities like free conversation, story making and telling, dramatization, language or vocabulary games, free play and dramatic play, should be provided to help in developing the speaking skills in children.