SES

Question 1

How can we measure SES? (4)

Answer 1

Poverty,
social capital,
Life expectancy,
Indices of multiple deprivation

Question 2

Factors of social capital. (3)

Answer 2

Financial, cultural, social

Question 3

what is Bonding Social capital

Answer 3

Relationships between similar persons (those alike with respect to sociodemographic and socioeconomic characteristics)

Question 4

what is Bridging Social capital

Answer 4

Bridging social capital is derived from dissimilar persons at the same level of hierarchy.

Question 5

what is Linking Social capital

Answer 5

Linking social capital is conceptualised as relationships between persons across levels of hierarchy and power

Question 6

SES is hard to define and measure but…

Answer 6

… has stark and important consequences

Question 7

Define Positionality

Answer 7

How your identity influences and biases your understanding of and outlook on the world.

Question 8

There is little variation in child language competence. True/False.

Answer 8

False.

Young children have striking variation in language competence.

Question 9

In the literature, maternal language input has been linked to (5)

Answer 9

Cognitive factors (Executive function)

Maths skills,

social skills,

school readiness,

Language development.

Question 10

What are the (3) most significant factors that are the best predictors for late language emergence at 24 months.

Zubrick et al 2007

Answer 10

Family history of late language emergence.

Male

early neurobiological growth

Question 11

What (4) factors do not predict late language emergence at 24 months.

Zubrick et al 2007

Answer 11

SES

Parent education

Parent Mental health

parenting style

Question 12

There is a positive association between social disadvantage and children’s language skills. True/False

Answer 12

True.

There is a positive association between social disadvantage and children’s language skills… but it is not possible to disentangle the causal paths

Question 13

(5) methodological issues with SES/language research.

Answer 13

Standardised language assessments.

Postcode data = SES

School attendance = SES

Small samples

Do not take into account variation between cohorts.

Question 14

(4) maternal language factors that affect language development

Ginsborg (2006)

Answer 14

Maternal education

Quantity of child directed speech

Quality of child directed speech

Mother’s sensitivity: Responsiveness and physical closeness.

Question 15

Problem with interventions that aim to change the language environment…

Answer 15

what should we change the language environment to?

Question 16

WEIRD =

Answer 16

white, educated, industrialised, rich, democratic.

Question 17

Cross-cultural language studies tell us what about the quantity and type of maternal language input globally

Answer 17

Wide variation in quantity and type of maternal language input.

Question 18

The importance of high quality infant directed speech is brought into question by…

Answer 18

Infant-directed, contingent, reciprocal conversation between mothers and infants researched above, is anomalous in terms of global cultural practices

Brown & Gaskins, 2014

Question 19

Hart and Risley 1995 - headline and problem

Answer 19

30 million word gap. Poor methodology.

Question 20

SES prejudice has an impact on SLT. True/False

Answer 20

True.

Question 21

Methodological concerns about 30 million words? (3)

Answer 21

Adult directed speech,

Mother only not family members,

Observers paradox