. Teachers should recognize that language cognitively, linguistically, and emotionally begins at home. Parents play an active role in teaching language to children. Adults teach language to children through infant-directed speech, recasting, echoing, expanding, and labeling
3. Teachers should recognize that children will acquire the use of English even when their native language is the only language spoken at home
4. Since the work of Vygotsky supports the notion that language is essential to the development of thinking, teachers should support appropriate private speech in order to help children self-regulate and access a higher level of functioning
