lexis

Question 1

positive reinforcement

Answer 1

aka expressive
where a caregiver uses positive wording to encourage a child’s learning
e.g ‘very good’ and ‘well done’
a form of operant conditioning

Question 2

negative reinforcement

Answer 2

where a caregiver will correct a child to help them learn in the hope that the child will imitate this behaviour
a form of operant conditioning

Question 3

operant conditioning

Answer 3

where a child tries out all sorts of utterances and is conditioned to repeat certain language patterns through positive and negative reinforcement

Question 4

expansion

Answer 4

the process of adding more to the content present
e.g adding to the declarative sentence

Question 5

recasting

Answer 5

a form of negative reinforcement
changing the form of the content
e.g adding in a negative particle or changing the sentence to a question

Question 6

classification

Answer 6

understanding categories e.g in a farm animal classification, you will have pigs, cows, sheep, goat etc