As a future educator, if I do not understand how my students' language skills develop, I will have a hard time helping them grasp the content material in class. Also, because DHH students sometimes have language delays and are not exposed to language until they start school, I need to be able to support their language development at any age. It is also important because DHH students have two languages to develop - ASL and English (for reading and writing) - and without a good, solid foundation for their first language, they cannot develop the second.
In this class, I hope to get a better understanding of the applications of language development, especially since this class is more practice-based. I generally think I have a decent grasp of the general theories of language development, and from that, I am starting to form my own ideas about language development. Now I'm ready to see that put into practice. The practice I get in this class is what I want to apply in my future job. I want to have a solid understanding of language development and how to facilitate language learning in my students. That is my main goal for this class.
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