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Consider implications - what is older person trying to
initiate/convey
- trying to tell child importance of something - pragmatics
- trying to ensure child is listening
- instigate a response
Applying knowledge
Engage with child's use
- discuss what they're trying to state
- awareness of any language features (morphology, syntax etc.)
- what do they not yet include (any omissions) so what stage are
they at and are they advanced
- anything paralinguistic to communicate instead of lang.
1960s, Language Acquisition Device - born with an inherited
ability to learn any human lang. LAD encodes major principles
Noam Chomsky of a lang. and its grand structures into the brain. Can't learn
through imitation alone because the lang. spoken around them
is highly irregular, often broken up, ungrammatical
- children learning to speak never make grammatical errors like
wrong order of SVO
Support for LAD - child notices adult's grammatically incorrect sentence
- virtuous errors show they're not learning through imitation
alone
although it's clear that children don't learn lang. through
imitation alone, it doesn't prove that they must have an LAD. Options
Against LAD
Could merely be through general learning and understanding
abilities and interactions with other people
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1970s Language Acquisition Support System - caregivers
support child's linguistic development in social situations. Clear
patterns of interaction between child and caregiver in everyday
Bruner situations (meal/bath time).
- Caregiver points things out and asks questions ("what's that? Is
that a doggy?"), through this support child gradually asks
questions themselves
there's a window of opportunity when children are just getting
into their productive communication, 10-18 months - predicts
Meredith Rowe their language ability very strongly later
- strong link between gestures and the ability to pick up vocab,
gets child engaged and interacting
babies can hear and remember music even when in the womb
- prefer consonance over dissonance
- prefer female voice, especially with "motherese" (high-energy
singsgong tone)
Dr Caspar Addyman - prefer plosive sounds
- can remember the tempo and timbre of music they've heard
before
-> physiological response, makes them happy and can lead to
anticipation and surprise with changes in music
1967 ability to acquire language is biologically linked to age -
language has to be acquired during a critical period of the first
Eric Lenneburg few years where they're presented with adequate stimuli, if
language input does not occur until after this time grammatical
fluency is never achieved
social interaction:
Private Speech: when a child talks
aloud to itself, evidence that it is
thinking to itself
Zone of proximal development:
Lev Vygotsky distance between actual independent
developmental level and the level of
potential development
- when someone is in the ZPD,
appropriate assistance will give them
a boost
1976 Scaffolding - built on ZPD:
once task principally beyond learner's capacity is mastered with
Wood et al.
support of scaffolding, it can then be removed and they will
then be able to complete the task again on their own
1988 language used in utterances affects the newborn's
Mekler et. al responses - they use prosodic and rhythmic features to process
lang
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Terms in this set (83)
Consider implications - what is older person trying to
initiate/convey
- trying to tell child importance of something - pragmatics
- trying to ensure child is listening
- instigate a response
Applying knowledge
Engage with child's use
- discuss what they're trying to state
- awareness of any language features (morphology, syntax etc.)
- what do they not yet include (any omissions) so what stage are
they at and are they advanced
- anything paralinguistic to communicate instead of lang.
1960s, Language Acquisition Device - born with an inherited
ability to learn any human lang. LAD encodes major principles
Noam Chomsky of a lang. and its grand structures into the brain. Can't learn
through imitation alone because the lang. spoken around them
is highly irregular, often broken up, ungrammatical
- children learning to speak never make grammatical errors like
wrong order of SVO
Support for LAD - child notices adult's grammatically incorrect sentence
- virtuous errors show they're not learning through imitation
alone
although it's clear that children don't learn lang. through
imitation alone, it doesn't prove that they must have an LAD. Options
Against LAD
Could merely be through general learning and understanding
abilities and interactions with other people
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1970s Language Acquisition Support System - caregivers
support child's linguistic development in social situations. Clear
patterns of interaction between child and caregiver in everyday
Bruner situations (meal/bath time).
- Caregiver points things out and asks questions ("what's that? Is
that a doggy?"), through this support child gradually asks
questions themselves
there's a window of opportunity when children are just getting
into their productive communication, 10-18 months - predicts
Meredith Rowe their language ability very strongly later
- strong link between gestures and the ability to pick up vocab,
gets child engaged and interacting
babies can hear and remember music even when in the womb
- prefer consonance over dissonance
- prefer female voice, especially with "motherese" (high-energy
singsgong tone)
Dr Caspar Addyman - prefer plosive sounds
- can remember the tempo and timbre of music they've heard
before
-> physiological response, makes them happy and can lead to
anticipation and surprise with changes in music
1967 ability to acquire language is biologically linked to age -
language has to be acquired during a critical period of the first
Eric Lenneburg few years where they're presented with adequate stimuli, if
language input does not occur until after this time grammatical
fluency is never achieved
social interaction:
Private Speech: when a child talks
aloud to itself, evidence that it is
thinking to itself
Zone of proximal development:
Lev Vygotsky distance between actual independent
developmental level and the level of
potential development
- when someone is in the ZPD,
appropriate assistance will give them
a boost
1976 Scaffolding - built on ZPD:
once task principally beyond learner's capacity is mastered with
Wood et al.
support of scaffolding, it can then be removed and they will
then be able to complete the task again on their own
1988 language used in utterances affects the newborn's
Mekler et. al responses - they use prosodic and rhythmic features to process
lang
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