What is Speaking and Listening?

 Both are not just about words, it a feeling that a child want to express by first listen, understand and then try to speak about it. These are the core point that help child build strong relationships and become an effective speaker.

Speaking:

Speaking is a way to share your thinking, your ideas, your words you think, what voice and sentence making. It also encourages children towards learning through expressing themselves.

For example: "I need a toy", I like this".

Speaking includes:

  • To convey their feelings
  • Sentence formation
  • Ask and answer questions
  • Storytelling
  • Get to know new words

It also help them to make new friends and solve problems to with others by joining group conversations. It make them more confident and encourages toward speaking.

Listening:

It means to hear and understand what others try say. It is also a foundation of communication. It also come before speaking as well, because child start listening the speaking patterns and understands by hearing voices. 

For example: obey the commands "wear you hat before going outside", or listening stories and rhymes.

Listening include:

  • Paying attention and repeat
  • Respond 
  • While listening keep thing in mind
  • Understand meanings

We know that children listen from ears, but they also listen from eyes as they see faces to and actions to remember, from brain to understand things around and with their heart to feel emotions and express what they feel about the specific person. Not even toddlers, babies can also listen voices, sounds, your of speaking and music as well.

Listening + Speaking= Communication

"Children learn best when adults talk and play with them, listen to them and respond to them"

Let's have a look how they works together

Actually speaking and listening are like a team and help a child to communicate smoothly through them.

Like for instance:

# A child listening a story, and try express what they like in the specific story.

# Children try to reply their friends during conversation through listening them.

# A child may ask lot's of questions while listen to the instructions.

For learn and understand "back-and-forth" conversations they need to practice both skills- like they can play ping-pong games in a friendly way. Along with that, children are not the perfect speakers or listeners so let them make mistakes as long as they ae learning from them. We do one thing instead of correcting them, just repeat the correct form with little more words and praise their efforts.