The Individual Differences In Oral Language Of Preschool Children

Every child is different from others. With many reasons, each of them represents great individual differences both in the process of their physical growth and psychological development. More and more psychologists and educators pay an attention to the individual differences and appeal to teachers who are working in the field to respect individual differences of each child. The diversity differences of children's oral language are also too great to ignore, because the oral linguistic ability is the important part of the linguistic intelligence in the preschool period. So we must try our best to recognize the individual differences in children's oral language and offer them appropriate educational program.However, the domestic research about the topic of differences in young children's oral language is few. In the viewpoint of respecting each child's individuality, this research that focuses on children's oral language was conducted.The linguistic activities in Project Spectrum were used to collect children's language samples. The conclusions based on experimental data are that there are quantitative and qualitative individual differences in children's oral language. The quantitative differences include two aspects. On one hand, there are extremely significant differences between the numbers of the words that children speak in the two linguistic activities. On the other hand, this quantitative linguistic difference has regular relationship with children's learning style. The quantitative differences include the differences on the key elements of children's linguistic intelligence, the differences on the oral language level, the differences on the common elements of the two activities and the differences on the characteristics and style of children's spoken language. Four factors are considered as influences that result the differences, which are character of the linguistic activities, children's learning style, gender differences and children's interests.In the final part of the paper, the author gave some educational advice to the teachers in the kindergartens to help them instruct children according to their oral language differences.