This article focusses on the importance of the attitude of the adult(s) in terms of early language development at the pre-school stage. The adult's ability to create a reciprocal, on-going relation ship between himself and a child, a bond of trust based on a sense of mutuality through the spoken word, conveys to the child a sense of what positive human relationships are about. He in turn makes his unique contribution to the relationship as in the child's confident question to a visitor to the Nursery School: "Whose are yours?".
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