Explain How The Techniques Promote Children's Speech And Language Skills

Questioning techniques helps the practitioner to begin the conversation with the children, where they ask children different questions, which encourages children think, explore ideas before giving an answer, hence it gives children an opportunity to practise language and help develop thinking skills. Listening is a vital aspect of learning speech and children learn new sounds and words by listening to those around them. The practitioner demonstrates the good modelling and provides good speech for them to listen by speaking clearly, slowly, face the child while speaking. Practitioner do not correct children but praise them for their effort of trying to speak the new word which the children could not pronounce properly and the practitioner repeats
It helps children expand their imagination and takes children to a world of dream and fairy tale which advances children visualisation skills through the use of actions. Since it is easy for children to repeat the rhyme hence it become some of a child’s first sentences. Repetition is good for children as it helps children to speak and learn new words which enhances their vocabulary but at the same time boring for them and the adults who is singing to them. Though rhymes helps develop children language skills but at the same time do not negate the problems of speech and language in the children with the additional
Children learn to measure ingredients using scales, measuring jugs, spoon and words like less, big, full, more, fluffy and develop concept such as hot and cold, melting, dissolving, mixing, temperature which are the stepping stones towards mathematical language. Children intolerance and allergies to be considered at all times, to avoid any health risk.

The practitioner in the nursery environment uses the Chomsky’s theory of Language Acquisition Device (LAD) and communicate and immerse children in the language at all occasion to activate this innate language learning ability and which as a result children listen speech and language in all aspects of interactions and they enhance proper grammatical composition of their particular language. LAD theory does not take sufficient account of the influence that idea and language have on each others development as children with down syndrome has speech delays.
Vygotsky’s theory encourages practitioner to take a child centred approach and understands the importance of collaborative learning in the life of the child and plans activities that involves not only what children is efficient of performing on their own but what they can learn with the help of their effort and with other children and young people in the nursery setting which as a result help children to become a successful