CHL 2601
ASSIGNMENT 4
2024
, Question 1 [25]
1.1 Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development and Test Item Categorization
Piaget’s Stages Test Items
i. construct and understand the world around them
A. Sensorimotor through their senses
stage vii. require security and comfort
xii. non-toxic and washable books
ii. beginning to understand symbolic representation
iii. egocentric and think that the world revolves
around their needs
B. Pre-operational v. enjoy stories in which animals and inanimate
stage objects can talk
viii. enjoy books that offer moral dilemmas
xiv. enjoy predictable stories and rhythmical
rhymes
vi. start to use logic
ix. begin to understand interpersonal conflict and
use books to help them to understand the self
C. Concrete
x. worry about peer acceptance and find comfort in
operational stage
books that deal with friendship among peers
xv. can classify books according to criteria and
enjoy concept books
iv. adolescents and adults
D. Formal xi. establishment of personal, social and cultural
operational stage identity
xiii. graded readers
1.2 Children’s literature is a form of literature that is defined by ideas
about its target audience. How does Noah Chomsky’s view of the
target audience of children’s CHL2601/ASSESSMENT 4/2023 7
literature influence your understanding of the importance of children’s
literacy for its target audience?
Noam Chomsky offered a fruitful conception of the languages that children
regularly acquire and use in human speech. In discussions of meaning,
Chomsky often emphasizes complexities of usage and warns against
theories that identify word meanings with sets of things that the words are
allegedly “true of.” While syntactic structure plays an important role in
determining the conditions on reference that complex expressions impose,
ASSIGNMENT 4
2024
, Question 1 [25]
1.1 Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development and Test Item Categorization
Piaget’s Stages Test Items
i. construct and understand the world around them
A. Sensorimotor through their senses
stage vii. require security and comfort
xii. non-toxic and washable books
ii. beginning to understand symbolic representation
iii. egocentric and think that the world revolves
around their needs
B. Pre-operational v. enjoy stories in which animals and inanimate
stage objects can talk
viii. enjoy books that offer moral dilemmas
xiv. enjoy predictable stories and rhythmical
rhymes
vi. start to use logic
ix. begin to understand interpersonal conflict and
use books to help them to understand the self
C. Concrete
x. worry about peer acceptance and find comfort in
operational stage
books that deal with friendship among peers
xv. can classify books according to criteria and
enjoy concept books
iv. adolescents and adults
D. Formal xi. establishment of personal, social and cultural
operational stage identity
xiii. graded readers
1.2 Children’s literature is a form of literature that is defined by ideas
about its target audience. How does Noah Chomsky’s view of the
target audience of children’s CHL2601/ASSESSMENT 4/2023 7
literature influence your understanding of the importance of children’s
literacy for its target audience?
Noam Chomsky offered a fruitful conception of the languages that children
regularly acquire and use in human speech. In discussions of meaning,
Chomsky often emphasizes complexities of usage and warns against
theories that identify word meanings with sets of things that the words are
allegedly “true of.” While syntactic structure plays an important role in
determining the conditions on reference that complex expressions impose,
