7 Flashcards
Start school (4-5)
intelligibility (1)
Sentences (1)
Social communication (2)
literacy (2)
Have intelligible speech, with
some immaturities
Speak in sentences with
some complex clause
communicate for a variety of
different social functions
Be able to take part in
conversations with children
and adults
Have knowledge of some letter names and
be able to discriminate between sounds
Be showing an interest in
reading and writing
Why are oral language skills important in school
(3) brand areas
(4) examples
Teaching and learning
Literacy
Social and emotional wellbeing
Children learn by talking and asking questions
Most teaching is talking, especially in early
years
Children need to understand the words
they read
Children need to be able to
communicate to make friends, join in
activities etc.
It is thought that school-age children
acquire xxx-xxx new words a year
It is thought that school-age children
acquire between 2,000 and 3,000 new
words each year
Knowledge and use of taxonomies
(categories) starts to become apparent
between x and x
Knowledge and use of taxonomies
(categories) starts to become apparent
between 5 and 7
Word association games
under 7…
Children under 7 are more likely to produce ‘sentence-like’ responses that reflect the language usage
they hear in everyday talk (e.g. car → “drive”)
Word association games
over 7…
Children over 7 are more likely to produce responses that are semantically related (same word type)
to the target (e.g. car → “van”)
Define Syntactic-paradigmatic shift
Define Syntagmatic responses
Define paradigmatic responses
developmental change in children’s responses on free-word association tests.
Syntagmatic responses follow the stimulus word in discourse, ‘cold’ – ‘outside’, syntagmatic responses are from a different grammatical class as the target word.
paradigmatic associates are of the same form class, ‘cold’ – ‘hot’, both being adjectives
Derived words outnumber root words at what age?
8-9 years
examples figurative language (3)
- metaphors (‘the classroom was a zoo’)
- similes (‘her eyes were like diamonds’)
- idioms (‘I put my foot in my mouth’)
Figurative understanding develops what age
8-9 years
Define fast mapping
New concept/name learnt from single exposure - working hypothesis - one novel item in view will be attributed the unfamiliar name just heard.
Fast mapping beyond early word learning (3)
we continue to add information
and refine meanings of words in a
prolonged, continuous process
throughout our lives
We build semantic networks or
webs of related words and concepts
We also draw on phonological and
grammatical knowledge
Divergent semantic production:
Divergent semantic production:
producing a diverse collection of words
based on their association with a topic.
ambulance = accident, doctor, siren…
Convergent semantic productions:
Convergent semantic productions:
identify a topic based on inferences from
associated words
water, people, crossing = ferry
Semantic networks
semantic links between tokens in lexicon
