Language Development Please make sure you have completed this unit's readings before coming to Seminar, especially the article, "The Language Use Inventory for Young Children: A Parent-Report Measure of Pragmatic Language Development for 18-47-month-old children" by O'Neil. Be prepared to answer the following questions: Notes from O'Neil Article (O'Neil, 2007): Researchers studying young children's pragmatic development have focused on a wide range of topics and ages
It focuses on attitudes toward reading and reading practices, which are believed to change over time. The design of the study was selected because research shows that "language develops over an extended time span," (Dickinson, Golinkoff & Hirsch-Patek, 2010, p
Furthermore, language shapes the child's social identity construction and conceptions of reality. The importance of language in social identity construction and reality construction is evident as early as infancy (Hoff, 2012)
305). It is particularly important to understand childhood perceptions of reading because reading and language literacy are linked with school achievement (Wells, 1986)
Parents who read regularly to their children, but who also solicit a two-way dialogue, promote more advanced reading skills in their children vs. parents who only offer one-sided conversation (Zimmerman, et al
The modeling of these computers is based on the mathematical phenomenon in which the programming of adequate words and the combination of words is made to formulate sentences in order to initialize the speech from the computer. Moreover, the concept of artificial intelligence is also exclusive in nature because the robotic structures are programmed with the software programs and are made with the artificial brain which is able to observe, analyze and interpret the input from surroundings automatically and is able to act or provide speech accordingly (Harley, 2013)
The acquisition of a language from an individual depends on the various spans of life which start from the infants age who are unable to understand the language and within a year; they start to understand some words. It has been observed that on average a two-year-old can possess the knowledge of about two hundred words which further increases up to the average of twenty thousand words per individual in the adulthood (Hoff, 2013)
The individuals possess the ability to develop the learned words with respect to their requirement and use them when needed. The tendency is found to be high in children in the initial age with respect to the understanding and effective utilization of sentence structures (Sigelman & Rider, 2014)
d.; (Tompkins, 2002). From "Mommy go" to "Mommy has gone" (Amstutz, 2012)
). Those methods are effective in all 3 components; however, they are also aided by using daily events in the classroom to encourage proper social skills student-to-student and student-to-teacher and student-to-others (Moore, n
While those methods help students develop syntax, this stage is also aided by: using correct grammar/syntax and always responding as an adult; playing sentence games; pasting pictures of common items on cards and having the child describe the item to the other children so they can guess the item; using simple scenes from books and magazines and having the child describe what is happening in the scene; scrambling the words of a sentence and having the child unscramble them; and cutting out pictures of people from cartoons and magazines, pasting them on cards and having children relate what the character will say, is saying, has said, etc., using different forms of the verb (Spivey, n
d.) Using "foldables" and matching games that teach root words, prefixes and suffixes (Stowe, n
Matrix -- Stages of Oral Language Development STAGES OF ORAL LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT Stage Description Utterances Support Phonology 1st stage of development; single-syllable sounds that children use to learn pronunciations and form dialect (Net Industries, n.d.; (Tompkins, 2002)
When Genie's lower-order need for security was threatened she was unable to focus on higher-order needs such as connecting with the interviewer in a social way. "According to Maslow, an individual is ready to act upon the growth needs if and only if the deficiency needs are met" (Huitt 1999)
thought comes before language). For Vygotsky, thought and language are initially separate systems from the beginning of life, merging at around three years of age, producing verbal thought (inner speech)" (McLeod 2014)
The brain is viewed as elastic….This 'absorption' of aspects of language to non-specific locations in the brain supposedly makes the learning of language, first or second language, easier for children than adults or older adolescents" (Moore 1999)