Manyparents think that children’s language expression is more important than language understanding. Parents believe that only through their children’s speech can they understand their language understanding. Therefore,parents usually spend a lot of energy and time asking their children to speak, and often ignore whether their children understand what they mean. For example, when holding a “cup”, mostparents ask their children to say “cup”, ignoring whether the child understands the object “cup”.
In fact, “understanding” is more important than “speaking clearly”. As the saying goes, “A tall building rises from the ground”. Without a solid foundation, a tall building will not be stable. And “hearing clearly” is exactly the basis of “speaking clearly”.
Sharing ideas, opinions and feelings with words refers to the ability of language expression, for example, when you feel hot, you can say “I am so hot!” with words or words. . Understanding otherpeople’s words and expressions refers to the ability of language understanding, for example, when others say “cup”, they can understand what others mean by “cup”. Language is made upof two categories: language understanding and language expression. Therefore, children must learn to master these two categories when learning a language.
However, if a child can only understand language, but can’t express it in words, he can still communicate with others, but he can’t fully express himself. On the contrary, if a child can only express himself in words and fails to understand what others say, then he will only “answer” irrelevant questions and can’t achieve the effect of communication at all. Therefore, if children want to learn to express themselves in language, they must first understand the meaning of language and learn the rules of language. Therefore, most children learn to listen first, and then learn to speak; Or children must understand before they can effectively use language to express themselves.
A child with language comprehensionproblems is like aperson who doesn’t know Korean in South Korea. He wants to communicate with localpeople, but he can’t understand. Therefore, some children with language comprehensionproblems may choose to be silent, shy or even self-centered, and often live alone. Some children may try to win others’ attention, but because they don’t understand the rules set by the teacher, they have to cry and even act like “little bullies”. In this case, others will naturally alienate him. How can they have two-way communication with others and then learn speaking skills?
Language understanding is also the basis of all learning, and children often have to follow instructions in class. However, children with language comprehensionproblems often give wrong responses or even ignore instructions because they don’t fully understand them. The teacher may think that the child is inattentive and uncooperative, and deliberately sings against the teacher. Whenparents receive complaints from teachers, they may also think that their children are naughty and ignore other factors that may lead to these behaviors. Therefore, if a child’s language comprehension ability isproblematic, it will directly affect his emotional expression, ideological communication, environmental adaptation and social development. Therefore, language understanding is more important than language expression.
