Language Development Flashcards
Students learn language by __________with people around them.
Interacting
The interpreter ________ the student’s ability to learn language by exposing them to fluent use of it.
Facilitates
What should an interpreter do to understand a student’s language development?
An interpreter should review the student’s Individualized Education Program (IEP) with a professional to understand the student’s current level of functioning.
True or False: Interpreters must know the student’s expressive and receptive language skills, cognitive potential, and educational goals as outlined in the student’s IEP.
True
What impacts a student’s ability to learn new concepts?
A student’s language level, world knowledge, and vocabulary skills can impact their ability to learn new concepts.
What is a common misconception about deaf or hard of hearing students’ language skills?
It is a misconception that they have problems learning language; the issue is often related to accessing language in their environment.
It is an environmental problem rather than a learning problem.
What is the difference between conversational language and academic language?
Conversational language generally involves more turn-taking and shared experiences.
Academic language is more complex and provides fewer contexts for understanding the topic. It often includes longer monologues and complex vocabulary.
What challenges do deaf and hard of hearing students face in learning language and concepts?
They are often learning language while also learning new concepts, which may require interpreters to explain concepts during interpretation.
This differs from hearing students who use language to learn concepts.
Fill in the blank: The ability to have a conversation about daily events doesn’t mean that a student can understand _______.
academic language
True or False: Gesturing is considered a linguistic form of communication.
False
IEP
Individualized Education Program
Is it a good idea for an interpreter to review the student’s IEP with a professional?
Yes
Language stimulates __________development.
Cognitive
Language ____________ influences cognitive abilities.
Sophistication
True or False: Language development in ASL does not parallel the development of spoken languages.
False
True or False: If a student has the ability to have a conversation about daily events that means that the student can understand academic language in the classroom.
False
At what age do students begin to produce their first words?
About 1 year of age.
When do students start combining two words or signs into a sentence?
About age 2 years.
At what age do students begin to produce complex language?
About 3 years of age.
By what age are hearing students able to use English morphology correctly most of the time?
By 3 to 4 years of age.
When are deaf students learning ASL able to use verb agreement correctly much of the time?
By 3 to 4 years of age.
What type of language do students talk about during the early stages of language development?
What is here and now.
What does decontextualized language refer to?
People and events that are not in the here and now.
What is one of the earliest forms of decontextualized language?
The ability to talk about past events.
When does metalinguistic development occur in relation to language acquisition?
Metalinguistic development is a later development.
How do young students use prosody in language?
To help determine how to segment language at the word and sentence level.
What happens to the language demands in textbooks around third grade?
They increase significantly in complexity of syntax and vocabulary.
What is a characteristic of textbooks for third graders compared to earlier grades?
More text and fewer pictures.
At what age do students still make numerous errors in the development of classifiers?
Until around 8 or 9 years of age.
How does vocabulary change as students develop?
Their vocabulary becomes much larger.
What do students make mistakes in while beginning to learn a language?
Pronouncing words and producing signs.
What is essential for effective language learning?
A teacher understanding what students know and don’t know.
How do deaf and hard of hearing students with ASL as their first language typically learn English?
From reading
Do hearing students typically need to be taught language?
No, except in special circumstances.
What is the process through which students learn what words mean?
Through multiple exposures over time.
Fill in the blank: Learning sign language will not interfere with a student’s ability to learn _______.
speech.
How do students learn language rules?
They become aware of the rule long after they have mastered it.
What is the role of interaction in language development?
Interaction is essential for language development.
How do students interact with each other compared to adults?
Students do not correct each other like adults do.
What effect does the absence of adults have on students’ use of language?
Students will be less inhibited in their use of language.
True or False: Students do not learn words by learning a definition.
True
True or False: Having an adult present during peer-to-peer interactions may alter the interaction.
True
Why is the early detection of hearing loss critical?
Because it allows deaf and hard of hearing students to develop language that is more age appropriate when compared with their hearing peers
True or False: The majority of deaf and hard of hearing students are born to hearing families who may not provide them access to a fluent language early in development.
True
Interpreting for a student with a cochlear implant might mean what?
They may be receiving some of the teacher’s spoken message as well as the interpreted message.
Is there a difference between students who had hearing loss before learning language and those who learned speech and language and then experienced hearing loss?
Yes
True or False: When deaf and hard of hearing students are delayed in language that means that there is something wrong with the student.
False. It is typically because their environment has not provided them sufficient access to language.
True or False: The student’s language use at home and at school are the same.
False
How do student’s peers typically view them if they don’t have age-appropriate pragmatic skills?
They may view that student as social awkward.
True or False: Sign systems designed to represent English are naturally developed languages.
False. They were developed by educators and the adult Deaf community generally doesn’t use them.
What do educators believe about the use of visual English/signed English is English development?
That exposure to visual English/Signed English will facilitate English development, which is not proven to be the case. They also believe English signing is easier for hearing people to learn.
What happens when interpreters invent signs?
The student’s linguistic system becomes different from other deaf peers, interpreters, and deaf adults. Also it may offend the deaf community.
True or False: Iconicity in sign language does not make learning signs easier.
True
Iconicity
The relationship of resemblance or similarity between the form of a sign and its meaning
