including the environment and the manner in which adults speak to them.
Communication experts Dr Rebecca Frost, Dr Katherine Twomey, Dr Gemma
Taylor, Professor Gert Westermann and Professor Padraic Monaghan
explain.
Early years practitioners are well aware that a language-rich environment helps children through the early stages of language development, from identifying words in speech to using them in sentences. But here, we look more closely at how children learn words, particularly names for objects, and how they use their environment to guide this process.
Helping children to learn words at an early age is incredibly important, because the number of words that a toddler knows predicts how well they will learn to read when they get to school1. However, word learning is enormously complicated, and there are two primary reasons for this.
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