Language health and cognition

Children's language education is a process of purposefully guiding children to learn languages and then promoting their psychological development. Children's language learning includes learning language forms, such as sounds and forms, their contents and meanings, and learning how to express their true intentions in natural situations. For children, learning and mastering a language not only means acquiring a language system including language form, language content and language application, but also means that children's psychological development has entered a new stage of development. Children's language education can not only help children learn language, but also promote their cognitive and emotional development.

Children's language education can promote the development of children's cognitive ability, especially their generalization ability. Through the study and mastery of language, children's understanding of external things gradually broke through the stage of obtaining individual, superficial and single evidence of things only through perception, and began to obtain the general and general characteristics of things with the help of language, and the summarized content gradually enriched. For example, with the help of language, we can find the similarities and differences between things, understand things indirectly and generally with the help of language, and thus obtain new concepts.

Children's language education can help children master a tool to communicate with others, learn to exchange ideas, information and feelings with others in language, and share others' understanding and views on the world around them. Under the guidance of adults, children begin to understand other people's languages and get the information they need from other people's words; They began to learn to express their demands, thoughts and emotions in appropriate language, so as to achieve the purpose of communicating with others.

Language education for children plays an important role in the process of children's socialization. Language development is not only the basis for children to know and understand social norms, but also one of the important signs of children's socialization. Under the guidance of adults, children can gradually learn to express their understanding of the outside world through language; Learn to know and understand others, gradually grasp the expectations of society for individual behavior, guide and adjust their own behavior with social or group behavior norms, and accelerate the process of socialization.

Children's language education has an important influence on the development of children's emotions. Language development is the foundation of children's social communication development, and the improvement of communication ability is conducive to children's close relationship with adults and peers, so that children can get positive emotional experience and promote the healthy development of their emotions. As an important part of language education, literary works are usually full of emotion. In the process of learning literary works, children can gain a variety of emotional experiences such as concern, happiness and sadness through empathy and performance. The values and beautiful language contained in literary works can also cultivate children's advanced emotions such as morality and aesthetics.

Language education promotes children's psychological development through a series of language experiences acquired by children. Specifically, in the process of language education, the language experience that children can get mainly includes the following three aspects.

Experience in interpersonal relationships: establish and maintain interpersonal relationships, understand and master certain rules of interpersonal communication, exchange personal feelings, hobbies, experiences and simple information, and express personal attitudes and preferences towards certain events; Obtain information or materials from * * * and provide information or materials for * * *.

Cognitive experience: providing or discovering simple information about the topic, interpreting and using simple known information and executing simple instructions through marking, comparing, sorting and classifying in the course of activities; Express personal views and ideas in concise language, explain your paintings, graffiti and other works with the support of teachers, understand and try to solve some simple situational problems; Perceive and understand the obvious characteristics of pronunciation, rhythm and prosody of language, produce initial language sensitivity, and apply these sensitivities to the process of language learning and use.

Creative experience: in the process of learning and appreciating children's songs, songs, stories and other language materials, express your understanding of the content of the work with language, action or scene performance; Use simple language to respond to characters or events in the process of painting, operating games and impromptu speeches, and describe events in imaginative activities such as watching pictures and telling stories, imitating children's songs or stories.