Child Language Acquisition - Caregiver

Question 1

What are Halliday’s 7 functions of speech

Answer 1

-instrumental
-regulatory
-international
-personal
-representational
-imaginative
-heuristic

Question 2

What are Dore’s 8 language functions?

Answer 2

-labelling
-repeating
-answering
-requesting action
-calling
-greeting
-protesting
-practicing

Question 3

How are “Fatherese” different to “Motherese”?

Answer 3

Men seem to use more direct questioning styles, seek more information and use wider vocabulary than women.

Question 4

Chomsky thinks that language occurs from an _____ ______ ________ (___)

Answer 4

Inbuilt processing device (LAD)

Question 5

Bruner thinks that there must also be a _____ ______ ______ ______ (LASS)

Answer 5

Language Acquisition Support system

Question 6

What does the zone of proximal development describe?

Answer 6

How adults and children work together to move children towards independence, knowledge and competence.