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Spend 2 minutes thinking about the following questions: - [if you cant remember try to use your tiny (in age) relatives as example]
Did you feel that language improvement accelerated by the way adults speak to you?
Did you have to repeat the correct words or sentences over and over again?
Did you learn language at the same rate as your siblings, relatives or friends?
Issues in FLA.
If we look at meaning we can analyze and discuss how the child becomes skillful in interpreting the functional meaning of the utterances they hear.
If we look at use we can analyze and discuss how the child is able to use the correct expressions in certain instances.
(Goh & Silver, 2004)
Language
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There are three major movements: (a) The behaviourist (b) The innatist / nativist
Behaviourism popular model of animal and human learning in the early 50s. Behaviourism possible to condition after repeated exposures to conditioning stimulus. However, Skinners behaviourism towards language learning focuses on what occurs after the response that shapes operant acquisition.
(a) ignore the childs own role in their own language acquisition process passive learner / tabula rasa
(b) inability to provide concrete explanation of complex grammatical learning in the child.
Language rules operates on specific linguistic structure and not on how many words, phrases or sentence.
Innatist believes there is strong evidence for innate, preprogrammed linguistic competence in the form of UG.
ZPD
The most important functions in CDS are: (a) Deixis drawing attention to the presence or absence of objects and people. (b) Repetition repeating the same word or the same idea (c) Expansion paraphasing or adding to what the child said. (d) Recast rephrase or to make it more accurate.
(Field, 2005)
References
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