Stages in Language Acquisition: A Case Study

The main objective of this study is to trace the language development of the child Anwar from a Jordanian Arabic-speaking home, from her first vocal sounds to the first sentences. The present study, which is based on 'naturalistic observations', covers the acquisition of Arabic during her pre-school age. The study was carried out by maintaining the proper records of the child utterances in the form of a 'diary' and the traditional method of phonetic transcription was used to record utterances. It was found that she had acquired Arabic by the time she was five. The same year she was admitted to kindergarten. The whole study will be confined to different stages of language acquisition. Adapted from the source document