This article was originally published as: LE DÉVELOPPEMENT DES COMPÉTENCES LANGAGIÈRES CHEZ LES ENFANTS JUMEAUX: UNE EXPÉRIMENTATION PRATIQUE
Original Article Link: Read Original Article
Download PDF: Click Here to Download PDF
Abstract
The language of children is very impressive for those interested in linguistics, especially when it comes to twins living in the same social environment. In our case, having two twins (a boy and a girl) invited us, as a linguist and didactics, to observe their language development closely and analyze the difference in communicative competence during the first five years of their life. The results of comparison between the boy’s and girl’s language show that it is not only the social milieu that influences the language progress of the child but there is also the attention that the child gives to his language and the importance that he attributes to linguistic communication which plays a key role in the development of his linguistic skills: phonetic, semantic, syntactic or even pragmatic.
Authors
- Mohammed ALKHATIB (Université Al al-Bayt – Jordanie.)
Keywords
Twins, Language, Mother tongue, Comprehension, Expression, Pronunciation, Sentence construction
References
References not available for this article.
