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Telegraphic sentences
The use of main words, leave the grammatical morphemes behind
Developmental sequences
When a telegraphic sentence evolves in a complete one.
Grammatical morphemes
Connecting words such as prepositions, articles, prefixes, suffixes…
Brown study
How children acquire grammatical morphemes in English = all people acquire gramm. morphemes in the same order, what varies is the rate.
Ing, plural, irregular, possesive, copula (is), articles, past tense, third person singular, aux. be.
Metalinguistic awareness
The ability to treat language as an object seperate from the meaning it conveys. Being able to define a word, being able to say what sounds make up a word. 3 y-o vs 5 y-o
Skinner - Behaviorist perspective
Children imitate and pratice what they hear until they develop habits of correct language. It gives great importance to the environment.
Chomsky - innatist perspective
Children are biologically programmed to acquire and develop language: language acquisition is innate. The only environmental factor is the avaibility of people to speak to the child. The children endowment will do the rest.
The critical period hypothesis (CPH)
The hypothesis that animals are genetically programmed to acquire certain kinds of knowledge and skills at specific times in life.
Ex: deafness and extreme isolation (victor/genie) will never acquire language if these deprivations go on for too long.
Piaget: physical interaction
Language develops through physical interaction with the environment. Devlopment of their cognitve understanding
Object permanence
Stability of qualities regardless of their change in apparence
Logical inferencing
Vygotsky - zone of proximal development (ZPD)
A personal experience in which a learner reaches a higher level of performance because of support and interaction with another individual who possesses greater skills and experience.
The study of Jim and Glenn
Connectionism ???
Language is something you pick up from your environment
Connectionism - code swithing ( aspect of bilingual language)
The use of words or phrases from more than one language within one conversation.
Connectionism - basic interpersonal communicative skills ( BICS)
They learn from watching and imitating interactions among their peers and between teachers and students
Connectionism - cognitive academic language profiency (CALP)
It takes longer time, accuracy and fluency
Connectionism - simulteneous bilinguals
The one that learned more than one language from earliest childhood
