Child Language Acquisition: Wider Reading Flashcards
What is Hallidays instrumental function?
Language used to fulfill a need.
What is Halliday’s regulatory function?
Language used to influence others, to command, request or persuade.
What is Halliday’s interactional function?
Language used to build or strengthen social relationships.
What is Halliday’s personal function?
Language used to develop a sense of self, opinions or express preferences.
What is Halliday’s representational function?
Language to request information from, or give information to, other participants.
What is Halliday’s heuristic function?
Language used to explore the world around oneself .
What is Hallidays imaginative function?
Language used to play and be imaginative.
What is Jean Piaget’s theory of language development?
Children use both assimilation and accommodation to learn language. Assimilation is the process of changing one’s environment to place information into an already existing schema. Accommodation is the process of changing one’s schema to adapt to new environments. Children must therefore create mental structures within the mind, and from these schemas language acquisition occurs.
What was Skinners argument of language acquisition?
Children learn language through operant conditioning, children receive positive reinforcement for using language in a functional manner. This follows the four-term contingency that Skinner believed was the basis of language development, motivating operations, discriminative stimuli, response and reinforcing stimuli. Skinner also suggested that children learn language through imitation of others, prompting and shaping.
What does Bruner propose?
Proposes a constructivist approach by which learners construct their own knowledge and do this by organising and categorising information using a coding system. Bruner beloved that the most effective way to develop a coding system is to discover it rather than being told by a caregiver. Therefore, the role of the caregiver should not be to teach information, but instead facilitate the learning process.
What did Lenneburg argue?
Argued that Skinners theory, in that children who are unable to speak die to illness are able to gain normal comprehension of language without the ability to imitate adults, or by having utterances reinforced.
What does Katherine Nelson suggest?
Suggests that “expansion coupled with recasting improved children’s ability to imitate’. She views language acquisition as a bridge between a child’s social and cultural growth with their growing knowledge of the world. She believes that thought proceeds language and that children learn words that fit into the context of a scene.
What does Catherine Garvey suggest?
‘Play, the Developing Child’. Garvey establishes the value of pretend play to promote vocabulary growth.
What is Vygotskys theory of language development?
Focuses in social learning and the zone of proximal development. The ZPD is a level of development obtained when children engage in social interactions with others, it is the distance between a child’s potential to learn and the actual learning that takes place. Vygotskys theory also demonstrated that Piaget underestimates the importance of social interaction in the development of language.
What did Thomas G White research?
Pre-school children between the ages of three and five did not apply superordinates terms. Mothers used superordinates inconsistently leading to the idea that adult language choices many affect under extension. However, as children grow older, their vocabularies grow, and instances of under extension decline.
What is Bruners interaction Theory?
This theory relies on the idea that children require interaction with peoples, to grasp the language they are learning. This theory favours Chomskys innateness theory, coining the LASS model (language acquisition support system), which argues that children do have the innate ability to acquire language, but also require the interaction of other users of the same language to excel in their learning.
What does Jean Aitchison suggest?
‘Language has a biologically organised schedule’. Children everywhere follow a similar pattern. Language is partly learned. G imitation, so caregivers play a role in the acceleration of learning the language. Parentheses whilst learning to speak could hinder the child in learning to speak later on.
