2.2.2 Interactionism

Question 1

What do interactionalists believe

Answer 1

A child is born blank slate and learns languages based on interaction with caregivers

Question 2

Do interactionalists argue for nature or nuture

Answer 2

Nurture

Question 3

What’s child directed speech (cds)

Answer 3

Process of talking to a child

Question 4

Who’s the main interactionalist

Answer 4

Bruner

Question 5

What did bruner believe

Answer 5

A child must interact with caregivers in order to learn how to use language

Question 6

What did bruner create

Answer 6

Language acquisition support system (lass)

Question 7

What’s lass

Answer 7

A system designed to ‘scaffold’ a child in learning language

Question 8

What 3 terms did Catherine Snow coin

Answer 8

Motherese
Fatherese
Otherese

Question 9

What’s motherese

Answer 9

Describes language used by mothers to talk to their children

Question 10

What’s fatherese

Answer 10

Describes language used by fathers to talk to their children

Question 11

What’s otherese

Answer 11

Describes language used by anyone else to talk to other ppl’s children

Question 12

What does Catherine Snow argue

Answer 12

Language acquisition happens as a result of the interaction which takes place between the mother and her child

Question 13

John Snarey states that fathers interact with their children in …

Answer 13

Different ways to the way their mothers do

Question 14

What does John Snarey say roughhousing teaches

Answer 14

Biting, kicking and other forms of violence are unacceptable and how to gain self-control

Question 15

What’s critical period

Answer 15

Period of time where child bear learns language

Question 16

Who coined the term ‘critical period’

Answer 16

Lenneberg

Question 17

What does Snow and Bruner argue

Answer 17

Caregivers may use strategies as part of the scaffolding and CDS process

Question 18

What 5 types of strategies were there

Answer 18

Recasting and reformulation 
Expansion 
Expatiation 
Overarticulation 
Exaggerated prosodic cues

Question 19

What’s recasting and reformulation

Answer 19

Caregiver repeats what the child said containing anything missing and needed to make a grammatically standard utterance

Question 20

What’s expansion

Answer 20

Caregiver makes utterance more complex by expanding on what they said

Question 21

What’s exaggerated prosodic cues

Answer 21

Exaggerated intonation, varying pitch and using higher intonations

Question 22

What’s overarticulation

Answer 22

Caregiver stretches out vowel sounds in words

Question 23

Who produced a set of maxims

Answer 23

Grice

Question 24

What are the 4 maxims

Answer 24

Maxim of quality
Maxim of quantity
Maxim of manner
Maxim of relation

Question 25

What’s maxim of quantity

Answer 25

Contributions must carry right amount of information

Question 26

What’s the maxim of quality

Answer 26

Contributions must be truthful

Question 27

What’s the maxim of relation

Answer 27

Contributions must be relevant and pertinent to discussion

Question 28

What’s the maxim of manner

Answer 28

Contributions must be clear and limit ambiguity