A IMPORTÂNCIA DA SÓCIO INTERAÇÃO NA AQUISIÇÃO DAS PALAVRAS NA PRIMEIRA INFÂNCIA

Abstract

Language acquisition is a complex thing. As children, we have a great ability to understand and assimilate facts, objects and words that are easily associated. The present work brings a brief theoretical reflection on the importance of social interactionism in the acquisition of words and an empirical research focusing on the acquisition of first words by children still in early childhood, between 3 and 6 years old in order to identify the words they learned first and through which method. For this, we developed questions that were applied to children and their mothers to achieve our goal. The child is mediated by other people who help in the exchange of knowledge. The child’s speech is very important, and her/his first attempts begin at a few months of age and her/his first words are also spoken before 2 years of age. For the child, it is easier to remember concrete actions linked to language in interaction with the social environment that is inserted than abstract information, because children are easily influenced by situations they witness, they are always very attentive to what they see and hear from others and therefore are also considered very imitative in early childhood. At the same time, this changes as they get older, because there is an exchange with the social environment and an exchange of thoughts, making older children change their ways of learning as they grow up, so there is a greater ease in acquiring knowledge and language in early childhood than as adults, considering the intellectual capacity and time of each one.