Piaget
What was Piaget's occupation?
Psychologist
What is private speech?
The act of talking to one's self to direct actions in order to complete tasks
What are the three language acquisition theories?
Behaviorist, Interactionist, and Nativist
What is the Zone of Proximal Development?
ZPD is the transference of an adults cognitive competence (the teacher) to the child’s cognitive development (the student) with the use of scaffolding
When should parents start the communication process with their child?
While the child is still in the womb
What is schema?
The file you have in your brain containing all of the information you have on something & it allows you to process, store, and retrieve what you know
Vygotsky believed a child was what in their quest for knowledge?
An active participant
Is the Behaviorist Theory more inline with nurture or nature beliefs?
Nurture
What is a key element of ZPD?
Meeting the child at their level and then helping them raise up one more
Responsiveness, Access to Books, Follow Child's Lead, Recast Words in an Additive Way, etc
What is the difference in accommodation and assimilation?
Assimilation is using existing schema to help place new information and accommodation is developing new schema to find a place for new information that doesn't fit with what you already know
What was the biggest element of Vygotsky's theory?
Zone of Proximal Development
Which theory is the most current view of language learning in which children are seen as active participants?
Interactionist Theory (Nature & Nurture)
What is intersubjectivity?
Working together to on different level to bring old and new information together in a child's mind
What factor seems to have the biggest influence on language acquisition in a child?
Social Class, Education, and Occupation
Equilibrium is the balance between what two things?
Assimilation and Accommodation
What modern day view spawned from Vygotsky's work?
The Social Interactionist Theory
What are the key elements of the Behaviorist Theory?
The child is an empty vessel and their environment is crucial in language acquisition
Whose theory does ZPD go with?
Vygotsky
What is the difference between expressive and receptive language?
What are Piaget's four stages of cognitive development?
Sensorimotor, Pre-Operational Thought, Concrete Operations, and Formal Operations
A child's innate abilities and their social experiences
Which theory holds the thought of a Language Acquisition Device (LAD)?
Nativist
What is an example of a scaffold that can be used?
Think, Pair, Shares
Training Wheels
Capacity for language is...
Innate