caregiver language

Question 1

Well done meg!

Answer 1

Ur genuinely so so near the end now omg xx

Question 2

Which of Halliday’s functions could clash due to pragmatics?

Answer 2

Regulatory and interactional

Question 3

What is the regulatory function (Halliday)

Answer 3

To influence the behaviour of others

Question 4

What is the instrumental function (Halliday)

Answer 4

Fulfil a need

Question 5

What does pragmatics involve?

Answer 5

Implicature, inference, politeness, turn taking, gender roles, rituals

Question 6

Piaget says what comes first, thought or language?

Answer 6

Thought comes first, thought is needed to understand and use language

Question 7

What does Piaget call it when children talk alone?

Answer 7

Egocentric speech

Question 8

Who found that girls are more likely to ask for help on their jigsaws

Answer 8

Thompson

Question 9

Who found that boys use more imperatives in play than girls?

Answer 9

S Sachs

Question 10

What age does sociodramatic speech begin?

Answer 10

4 years old

Question 11

Does Chomsky think that CDS is important?

Answer 11

No

Question 12

what does egocentric speech mean?

Answer 12

when children can’t internalise thoughts so talk to themselves when alone

Question 13

Does Piaget think that CDS is important?

Answer 13

No

Question 14

what is child directed speech?

Answer 14

the language used by adults to young children in order to help their development.

Question 15

what is expansion?

Answer 15

when adults add language to a child’s utterance to make it more grammatically accurate.

Question 16

what is a recast?

Answer 16

when parents correct children positively by saying it accurately back to them.

Question 17

what is scaffolding?

Answer 17

adults offer support to help children’s development

Question 18

example of scaffolding?

Answer 18

leading child to correct answer.

Question 19

what is critical period for development of LASS?

Answer 19

0-7 years.

Question 20

explain critical age theory

Answer 20

if no language acquisition support system is developed in critical period, it will never develop.

Question 21

what can help increase lexical growth?

Answer 21

understanding object permenance.

Question 22

6 features of CDS?

Answer 22

repetition, higher pitch, name>pronouns, present tense, expansions/recasts, elliptical utterances.

Question 23

even if a child is born with LAD, if they have no interaction, what will happen?

Answer 23

brain shrinks, never understand complexity of grammar.

Question 24

what did Brown find was rarely corrected?

Answer 24

grammatical errors, however lexical errors more commonly corrected.

Question 25

what is the zone of proximal development and whose model is it?

Answer 25

Vygotsky - zone just beyond child's current capabilities.

Question 26

if conversation is in ZPD what happens?

Answer 26

according to vygotsky, the language used encourages thought. they listen and internalise language.

Question 27

what will a good "more knowledgeable other" lead to?

Answer 27

quicker development and full capability reached.

Question 28

what's an LASS and whose model is it?

Answer 28

Bruner, language acquisition support system.

Question 29

3 examples of LASS?

Answer 29

joint attention (focussing on one thing together, scaffolding (leading to correct answer), rituals (peakaboo teaches pitch, intonation, turntaking and syntax).

Question 30

what activity helps hugely with development?

Answer 30

imaginative role playing and adopting adult roles.