CLA Flashcards
PAPER 1
order of phonemes
plosives and nasal first
bilabials (look at lips)
velar
fricative
whole-word approach
encouraged to look and say
relies on children memorising large numbers of words
berko
wug test -
shown fictional monsters and asked to finish sentence
e.g - this is a Wug, there are now two ______
75% of children (4-5) selected the right ending
substitution
letter is replaced by another
substitution
easier phoneme is used in place of a harder one
‘logurt’ instead of yogurt
Stage 5 of language acquisition
protowords
assigns sounds to objects
transposed letters
written the wrong way round
Ehri
4 stages to learning to read
- pre-alphabetic
- partial alphabetic
- full alphabetic
- consolidated alphabetic
britton
children need creative freedom in order to learn to write
post telegraphic stage
full use of the english language including contractions and irregular verbs
phonic approach
children are encouraged to recognise which graphemes (letters), digraphs (two letters) and trigraphs (three letters) correspond to what phonemes
assimilation
uses a sound from earlier / later in the word to make it easier to say
‘lellow’ instead of yellow
clay’s concepts
must be understood
- sign (writing carries meaning)
- message (spoken words can be written)
- space (words need spaces between them)
- direction (left to right)
Stage 3 of language acquisition
Babbling
6 months
reduplicated (baba / dada)
variegated (daba / dimba)
phonemic expansion (lots of phonemes)
phonemic contraction (then only used phonemes from own language)
Stage 6 of language acquisition
first word
usually dog, cat, mum, dad etc
moves to holophrastic stage
psycholinguistic approach
decodes words based on context (other words in sentence, pictures etc)
torrance
assessment leads to better writing, accuracy is important
lenneberg
there is a critical period for learning language
2-14 years old
graphemic cluster substitution
a group of letters is replaced by others
Nativism
children have an internal, innate language learning device
Chomsky - language aquisition device (LAD) contains a set of rules (universal grammar) which is inbuilt. This is shown when they make a virtuous error (‘we throwed’) which the parent wouldn’t have taught, but follows internal grammatical rules.
Bard et al
Jim - boy who had 2 deaf parents and didnt learn to speak
speech therapists taught him to speak, showing importance of interaction
mehler
babies recognise their parents’ language when they were born
social constructivism
children learn the rules of language and learn to construct it
Tomasello - children listen to language and find patterns to develop schema
Braine - children use frames / slots
- e.g the frame for having completed an action is ‘I XXX-ed’ and will full in the verb appropriately.
behaviourist approach
Skinner
children learn through positive and negative reinforcement