Child Directed Speech Flashcards
What are the 8 features of child directed speech?
Repetition and/ or repeated sentence frames
A higher pitch
The child’s name rather than pronouns
The present tense
One-word utterances and/ or short elliptical sentences
Fewer verbs/ modifiers
Concrete nouns
Expansions and/ or recasts
What are the benefits of CDS?
Teaching children the basic function and structure of language.
Who said that there was a Language Acquisition Support System ( LASS )?
Jerome Bruner
Who thinks that language occurs from an in-built processing device ( LAD )?
Noam Chomsky
Adults and children work together towards independence, knowledge and competence by ‘the zone of______’. Who discovered this phrase?
Proximal development, by Vygotsky
What is ‘scaffolding’?
The support offered to children’s language development, i.e scaffolding around a building.
Name three methods that caregivers use to engage children’s brains
Rhyme, rhythm and pitch
