EML1501 Assignment 2 (QUALITY ANSWERS) 2024

This document contains workings, explanations and solutions to the EML1501 Assignment 2 (QUALITY ANSWERS) 2024. For assistance call or us on 0.6.8..8.1.2..0.9.3.4.... QUESTION 1 [30] The following questions are based on the scenario below. Tom is a 4-year-old boy who stays with his granny in a village. Every evening his granny tells him short bedtime stories. He enjoys storytelling. He has just been admitted at a local daycare centre and the teacher is impressed by how Tom retells the stories to his peers at the centre. His language is characterised by more complex sentences that resemble that of older children. 1.1 Describe the language stage that Tom displays. Give concrete examples to support your answer. (15) 1.2 How can Tom’s grandmother employ advanced strategies and techniques to strengthen and promote his language skills through supplementary activities? (5) 1.3 Recommend ways that you as a teacher can explore to advance the literacy development of children like Tom. (10) QUESTION 2 [40] 2.1 Justify your understanding of how children employ narrative skills. Provide concrete examples to support your answer. (10) 6 2.2 Differentiate between the recreation theory and the pre-exercise theory of play. (10) 2.3 Study the picture below and answer the following questions. . 2.3.1 List five skills that are depicted from the above picture and argue the importance of each skill. (15) 2.3.2 Demonstrate your understanding of the concept phonological awareness. (5) QUESTION 3 [30] 3.1 Compare and contrast the perspectives of language teaching proposed by the behaviourist and the nativist theorists. Illustrate their arguments with practical examples. (20) 3.2 Drawing upon Vygotsky’s social theory as a framework, argue the significance of play in fostering language development in Foundation Phase learners. (10)