The Importance Of Turn-Taking In Children

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Turn-taking is the cornerstone in language development, because it is on it that children build all aspects of their lives, (Macquarie-University), such as circular education, home education, social education. It is one of the parent’s important responsibility that determine how the child will develop and the person he/she will grow to become. Therefore, in language development, there is always communication between two or more people, one person talks while the other listens, and the listener reply to the conversation, this is called “turn-talking”. So, the ability to comprehend and contribute in turn-taking is an important step in building speech and in language skills development of an infant. Turn-taking is the fundamental step in which a child will grow-in and live-in in life (Kail & Zolner, 2015). …show more content…

Mostly, adults teach babies and kids how to imitate and take-turn during play activities (Sage), a child could imitate adult’s behavior, facial expression and speech. Imitation and turn-taking lay the down the foundation of conversation for babies and kids. Infants starting taking-turns even before they were born, for example, when a pregnant woman talks to their baby in the womb, the baby, at times, response to the mother’s speech by moving around in the womb, this is turn-taking.
Most of the time, caregiver, exchanges word and emphasizes important words with their baby in an exaggerate speech, which includes but not limited, to pitch and rhythm, this exaggerate speech is know as motherese, (Macquarie-University), which is the way of communication between adult and infant, it has been suggested by professionals and researcher that it help language acquisition in the first year of development. Motherese is one of the ways adult also teach babies how to take

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