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 * 1) **2. ****__Develop oral skills: __**In this unit I have learnt how to develop oral skills in our future children. The base to learn them is Vigotsky’s theory, constructivism, and different intelligences of Gardner's theory. Our general aim to develop oral skill has been listening and understanding in an oral interaction. To get it we have proposed these objectives: Listening and understanding the song and the explanation, development of the strategies (using verbal, nonverbal and visual language) and oral activities. The non verbal language is a good tool to help the children understand, because it's something that always goes with the verbal language as something that supports it. If the child doesn’t understand some words, the use of nonverbal language can help them to understand this word. The most common nonverbal sings used are: emblems, illustrators, adaptors, regulators and affect displayers. Reference in paralanguage is: qualifiers, characterizers and segregates. The songs are an important tool to develop oral skills, because they are more dynamic than the other exercises.In this unit the children will have to work with affect displayers and illustrators too, such as gestures, facial expressions showing emotions or micro expressions, for example. The paralanguage is important too, for example the use of qualifiers, characterizers and segregates.

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 * __THE MOST COMMON NOVERBAL SIGNS ARE:__**

- Emblems: Gestures with precise meaning known by a culture. - Ilustrators: Gestures that enhance verbal message. - Adaptors: Help a person adapt release tension, also called "manipulators". Hands used very often. - Regulators. Used to regulate, manage or control a conversation. Turn taking, control the conversation. - Affect displayers: Facial expressions showing emotions. Like micro expressions.


 * __PARALANGUAGE:__**

- Qualifiers: Volume, inflection, pitch, pacing, tone, melodiousness. - Characterizers: Sounds, sights, laughing, cryings... - Segregates: Fillers in speech, pauses, silence or sounds.

__**WHAT IS A LANGUAGE USER?**__

A language user is a person who:

- Write and speak in different languages. - Expressed well. - Has a good comunication. - Interact with people. - Use differents movements, body language... - Use paralanguage, expressions...

To me, a language user is someone who can build and transmit a discourse in a context through differet uses, for example body language, paralanguage...etc.