Language Area

Language Area

Language is the most important tool that man has to develop. Before the language was developed, man had not been able to express himself verbally. It was at the level of an animal. Today there are about 8,900 languages ​​from the time of primitive man to today.

Civilization grew as man learned to express his ideas to one another, to live and to work in community. Language is the basis of all knowledge and human relationships.

The child should hear the sounds used by people around him before playing them. The development of speech depends on the sounds you have heard and that your mind has retained. Speech is produced by a natural logical mechanism. The apparent influence of such intellectual direction acts creatively, psychologically and physically.

A special mechanism exists for language which allows man to make his own language. This is what distinguishes the human species from the animal.

The child imitates what he hears around him. The child can learn any language that is taught during the first years because his way of learning at this stage is imitative.

The most important area of ​​the Montessori system is language. Students spend half of their time studying subjects related to language. In fact, the learning of almost all materials depends on your understanding of the language.

The young child has primary attention to the language area, because from here the child absorbs knowledge, develops skills and sharpens the intelligence with the materials found in the environment.

The first materials in the Montessori room for children from 3 to 6 years old seek to develop oral language, communication skills, listen, pay attention, decode, reproduce what is heard, analyze, infer, ask, elaborate and express ideas, follow mandates, auditory discrimination, perception, vocabulary enrichment, etc.

All these language development objectives are present transversely in the other areas of the Montessori environment.