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“Oral language development and written language development are interrelated processes that culminate in children\'s communicative competencies.

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Language is essential to society. It forms the foundation of our perceptions, communications, and daily interactions. It is a system of symbols by which we categorize, organize, and clarify our thinking (Stice, Bertrand, & Bertrand, 1995). Through language, we represent the world and learn about the world. Without language, a society and its culture cannot exist”. p. 2-3,

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The interactionist perspective part of language development points to process “rather than on language as a product of development”. The “interactionist approach builds on each of the three prior perspectives of language development. Specifically, it acknowledges behaviorism\'s recognition of the environment\'s responses to young children\'s communicative attempts, nativism\'s recognition of the human capacity for processing linguistic information, and the cognitive developmentalist\'s contention that language development is influenced by the nature and sequence of cognitive development.

Theoretical Perspectives