Competency 3: Oral Language Flashcards
Express ones ideas, needs and feelings; specifically in speaking and writing.
Expressive Language
Used to process the thoughts, needs, and feelings of others, specifically through listening and reading.
Receptive Language
-Resemble spoken language rather than a speaker reading the text aloud
-Overall comprehension rather than recalling trivial details
-performance test where students are asked to perform a task
Assessing Listening Skills
-Observing the students speech and behavior
-Asking students to perform an oral communication task (describing family)
-Should focus on topics students can talk about without much knowledge/ experience
Assessing Speaking Skills
Provides a general picture of the students performance
Holistic Rating
Assesses the students ability to achieve a specific communication purpose
Primary trait
Captures the students performance on various areas of communication, such as organization, content, and language.
Analytic scales
Smiles socially
Imitates facial expressions
Coos, cries, and babbles
Plays with sounds
Develops intonation
Repeats syllables
Infant stage of oral language
Responds to specific songs
Uses two-word sentences
Depends on intonation and gesture
Understands simple questions
Points and or names objects in pictures
18 months- 2 years oral language development
Begins using pronouns and prepositions
Uses “no”
Remembers names of objects
Has a high interest in language
Increase in communication
Large jump in vocabulary growth and articulation
2-3 years oral language development
Communicates needs & asks questions
Begins to enjoy humor
Improving articulation
Begins true conversation
Responds to directional commands
Knows parts of songs
Can retell a story
Speaks in 3-4 words sentences
3-4 years oral communication development stage
has a large vocabulary
Uses irregular noun and verb forms
Talks with adults on adult level in 4 to 8 words a sentence
Engages in imaginative play using complex oral scripts
Tell longer stories
Retells the day’s events in sequence
Uses silly and profane language to get a reaction
4-5 years oral language development stage
Provides students with opportunities in all content areas to speak and listen for a variety of purposes.
Rich language environment
-Meaningful and purposeful conversations with each other, and with adults
-Games, role-plays discussions, collaboration, sharing, presenting, and reading
-Explicit instruction into the differences between formal and informal speech, and between speech and writing
-Listening for a variety of purposes and evaluating the effectiveness of communication— the communication of others and their own attempts
-Using technology to build oral language skills (books on tape, listening center, music, computer games)
Strategies to promote oral language development
-understand short commands, listen actively, listen critically to interpret and evaluate, listen responsively to stories and texts, identify musical elements of language (such as rhymes and repeated sounds), listen and speak to share and experience culture, learn and use new vocabulary, listen to enjoy spoken language speaking, matches language to social contexts, responds appropriately and courteously, participate in rhymes, songs, conversations, and discussions, distinguish and produce sounds in English, infer meaning using visuals and actions, Adapt spoken language to audience and setting, Gain increasing control of grammar when speaking
TEKS for Oral Langauge
