Today our topic of discussion is- Statement of Problem
Statement of Problem
First language acquisition is intrinsically intertwined with communication as interactions and socialization with others are created, enacted, and toughened all the way through it. Acquisition is therefore achieved and reinforced communicatively with the help o the information and experiences gathered from the environment as well as the people nearby the learner.
Language comes individually as one of the most vital of human activities. The marvelous capacity of acquiring and analyzing of the essential characters of language input starts from birth (Lust, 2006). The use and understanding of language represent the child’s
thoughts more clearly than their attempts to communicate with others.
Meaning acquisition is an innate process that occurs naturally to every normal human child from the first year of their life.
The way in which infants or young children know the meaning of things, or how they expres s a language’s semantic function, is called meaning acquisition. There are several factors that are and considered to be the precursors of language development. Starting from the child’s single word utterances, it appears to be like that these early words at first have primarily *intentional’ meaning rather than ‘lexical’ ones (Morgenthaler, 1981).
A child who starts to convey meaning through verbal language is understood better for what he or she intends to mean or communicate. The content of a child’s speech is considered to be its conceptual substance as several factors like age, self esteem, cognitive- perceptual development, linguistic or non- linguistic experiences are related to it.
According to researchers, the language facility of the child could influence their ability to communicate expressively and help in the growth of language competence too. The nature of the speech produced by the child can never be understood until the environment or language situation is considered.
This makes the need for proper ‘language input’ more important in the successive development of a child’s language faculty. The ‘usage based theory’ of language acquisition foregrounds the importance of identifying the meaning making process of a first language learner from his /her perspective.
My research takes the usage based theory as a base to enter the realm of child language acquisition and attempted to understand and co-create the everyday communicative practices. Like all the young language speakers of the world, the Bengali speaking first language learners also engage in interacting with each other through social and
discourses that emerge from the interactions and inputs received from the immediate family members and surrounding environment of the child through participant observations and in- depth interviews.
The ultimate goal here was to observe and figure out the communicative experiences of the children’s meaning expressions in their day today life. It foregrounded the acquisition processes of the participants to create spaces of language development.
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