Describe the stages in language development. Provide examples that illustrate this development based on childr

Question

finishing question 1. children you know or students in your classroom.

Answer 1

I assume you are referring to Piaget's stages of cognitive development. According to him, there are four stages:

1. Sensorimotor (from birth to age 2) babies use their senses to experience the world (by sucking their thumbs and, later on, by putting toys in their mouth);

2. Preoperational stage (age 2 - 7) acquisition of motor skills (children learn how to manipulate objects);

3. Concrete operational stage (7-11) children begin to think logically but in a very concrete way. For example, they cannot understand figurative language or proverbs (such as "it's raining cats and dogs");

4. Formal operational stage (after 11) development of abstract reasoning. For example, they begin to understand connotation, figurative language and, therefore, riddles.