CLA Theorists Flashcards
Halliday 7 functions of acquiring language
Instrumental, regulatory, interactional, personal, heuristic, imaginative, representational
Dore functions
Labelling, retreating, answering, requesting action, calling, greeting, protesting, practicing
CDS
Social purpose suggested by Keith and Shuttelworth
To gain attention
Makes language more accessible
Some countries like papa New Guinea don’t use baby talk (effective)
Cruttenden negatives
- No and not
- Don’t and can’t placed after subject
- Didn’t and isn’t used more accurately
Cruttenden questions
- Inotation
- Question words
- Auxiliary verbs
Chomsky (nature)
Children are born with innate knowledge of language structure
Caregivers correct children and they either adopt or reject the change
Skinner (nurture)
Imitation theory of copying parents accents
Behaviourism
Learnt went not goed because they hear it
Kroll (learning to write)
Preparatory stage (basic motor skills)
Consolidation (colloquialisms)
Differential (structure)
Integration (stylistic changes)
Additional
Child adds to words
Diminutisation is adding ‘y’ to end eg. Doggy
Deletion
Removes sounds eg, ca
Consonant cluster reduction
Removes some sounds eg. Ra-it for rabbit
Substitution
Subs easier phoneme eg loghurt not yoghurt
Assimilation
Using sounds from later in word eg lellow
Holophrastic stage
Single words usually nouns
Adding some intonation like parents but mostly shouting words for Qs
Two word stage
Verbs start emerging with lots of nouns
Mostly two word sentences eg milo woof
Telegraphic stage
Enough words to successfully communicate
Prepositions and pronouns
Post telegraphic stage
Contactions and irregular verbs
Benco and Brown
Children notice mistakes but unable to identify the mistake specifically
Fis but seen as fish to them
Transposition
Mixing up letters
B for d
Ascender or descender graphemes
Pen movement
Barclay theory
Mock handwriting etc
Joan Rothery (reason for writing)
Observational, recount, report, narrative
Berko and Gleason
Wug test to show how children have understanding of plurals they can apply to anything
75% could apply it
Kath Nelson
Classifying words
Using nouns as main word class
Children at holophrastic stage whose mothers corrected them a lot advanced slower in vocabulary
Egotistical
All revolves around child
J. Bruner (nurture)
Social and interactional accelerate language
Adults reinforce conversational and pragmatical skills
Turn taking
Asking and labelling things
Snow
Motherese
Sing song voice
Question and answer
Clark and Clark
Children only exposed to adult interaction don’t acquire the same standard of language
However babies who blend in with adults go through same development stages
Keith and shuttleworth
CDS is social not educational
CDS doesn’t directly help babies learn language
It helps parents communicate with children
Katherine Nelson
Children whose mothers corrected them on word choice and pronunciation advanced slower
During holophrastic stage
Positive reinforcement
Skinner
Recasting and expansions of Childs language even if incorrect