caregiver language Flashcards
What are Halliday’s functions of speech?
Regulatory, instrumental, interactions, personal, representational, imaginative, heuristic.
Which of Halliday’s functions could clash due to pragmatics?
Instrumental and interactional
What is the regulatory function (Halliday)
To influence the behaviour of others
What is the instrumental function (Halliday)
Fulfil a need
What does pragmatics involve?
Implicature, inference, politeness, turn taking, gender roles, rituals
Piaget says what comes first, thought or language?
Thought comes first, thought is needed to understand and use language
What does Piaget call it when children talk alone?
Egocentric speech
Who found that girls are more likely to ask for help on their jigsaws
Thompson
Who found that boys use more imperatives in play than girls?
S Sachs
What age does sociodramatic speech begin?
4 years old
Does Chomsky think that CDS is important?
No
what does egocentric speech mean?
when children can’t internalise thoughts so talk to themselves when alone
Does Piaget think that CDS is important?
No
what is child directed speech?
the language used by adults to young children in order to help their development.
what is expansion?
when adults add language to a child’s utterance to make it more grammatically accurate.
what is a recast?
when parents correct children positively by saying it accurately back to them.
what is scaffolding?
adults offer support to help children’s development
example of scaffolding?
leading child to correct answer.
what is critical period for development of LASS?
0-7 years.
explain critical age theory
if no language acquisition support system is developed in critical period, it will never develop.
what can help increase lexical growth?
understanding object permenance.
6 features of CDS?
repetition, higher pitch, name>pronouns, present tense, expansions/recasts, elliptical utterances.
even if a child is born with LAD, if they have no interaction, what will happen?
brain shrinks, never understand complexity of grammar.
what did Brown find was rarely corrected?
grammatical errors, however lexical errors more commonly corrected.
what is the zone of proximal development and whose model is it?
Vygotsky - zone just beyond child’s current capabilities.
if conversation is in ZPD what happens?
according to vygotsky, the language used encourages thought. they listen and internalise language.
what will a good “more knowledgeable other” lead to?
quicker development and full capability reached.
what’s an LASS and whose model is it?
Bruner, language acquisition support system.
3 examples of LASS?
joint attention (focussing on one thing together, scaffolding (leading to correct answer), rituals (peakaboo teaches pitch, intonation, turntaking and syntax).
what activity helps hugely with development?
imaginative role playing and adopting adult roles.
