FOREIGN WORDS AND FOREIGN WORDS SIGNIFICANCE IN CHILDREN'S LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
FOREIGN WORDS AND FOREIGN WORDS SIGNIFICANCE IN CHILDREN'S LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

Summary/Abstract: Pre – primary school and basic educational programmes pay attention to children’s speech development, combining it with word stock development and activisation, acquirement of words’ meaning. As early as in kindergarten, favourable opportunities should be provided for the development of literary correct and rich language, non-literate words must be eliminated from the child’s speech. The kindergarten curriculum claims that the preschool age the child must acquire such a vocabulary, which can ensure the communication by means of the language, prepare them for successful learning at school, fosters perception of folklore, fiction, films, radio and TV programmes. While the child is learning the language, the words from its passive vocabulary can enter the active vocabulary, and it depends on the work done for the language enrichment by adults. A very important task to be implemented by both parents and teachers is to open up the wealth of the literary language, which can be perceived through multiple sources – folksongs, fairytales, legends, proverbs, sayings, riddles. A major role is played by fiction in the process of personality development, because it facilitates immensely the child’s knowledge about the environment, adult and peers’ life, about their ideas, actions and aspirations. Diminutives, exclamation words and also sound verbs, serving well for emotional efficiently short description of feelings, volition or reality and to express their assessment, are widely involved by both adults and children in their language as well as used in genres of folklore, children literature. Children have to be able to use comparisons, synonyms, idioms, foreign words, because in daily speech they are integral components (they are widespread in fiction and in other styles, different language fields). Loans help to acquire foreign language easier, approach languages and promote understanding.

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