Acquisition Theories
Language Terms
Approaches Constructivist or Transmission
Misc.
A look ahead
100
This theory consists of two basic processes: classical conditioning and operant condition and imitation
What is Behavorist Theory
100
This means the sound system of a particular language
What is Phonology?
100
Believes children learn part to whole.
What is Transmission?
100
This is the mental structure that stores and organizes language.
What is schema?
100
The midbrain, forebrain and this are three parts to the brain.
What is the hindbrain?
200
This theory believes language in a child's environment triggers innate LAD (langauge acquisition device) system.
What is Nativism theory
200
This deals with the phrase and sentence meanings and the subtle shades of meanings that language can convey.
What is Semantics?
200
Believes the teacher is the sole evaluator of assessments.
What is Transmission approach?
200
This is temporary assisstance and support that enables young children to do things that they could not do on their own.
What is scaffolding?
200
The corpuse callosum sends information back and forth between which two hemispheres of the brain?
What is the left and right hemisphere?
300
This theory supports the interaction of nature and nurture.
What is Biological Theory
300
This is the written symbols to represent the sounds, syllables, and morphemes of spoken language.
What is Orthography?
300
Believes the teacher is the disseminator of information.
What is Transmission?
300
A stage at which a child has partially mastered a skill but can use this skill only with the help of others.
What is zone of proximal development?
300
The brain learns best by incoporating as many of these in one learning experience as possible. Hint, babies use these to learn about their environment.
What are senses?
400
This theory believes that language is meaningful and intentional even from the earliest interactions.
What is Social-Interactionist?
400
This deals with the rules used for arranging words into sentences. For example: Building falls on man vs. Man falls on building.
What is Syntax?
400
Believes children learn through observations, explorations andd interactions with others.
What is Constructivist?
400
The Nativist theory believe in an innate capacity to learn language. This is what Noam Chomsky called this innate capacity.
What is LAD or language acquisition device?
400
The brain is organized into this many functional systems, labeled as units.
What is three. Unit I, Unit II, Unit III
500
This theory is a result of both genetics and adult support.
What is Social Interactionist?
500
rules that affect how language is used in different social contexts.
What is Pragmatics?
500
Believes each student's learning style is unique and adjusts instruction to reflect this.
What is Constructivist?
500
These are the smallest units of meaning in a language and begin to emerge around a child's first birthday.
What is a morpheme?
500
True or false. Patterns that the brain processes are organized and reorganized throughout life.
What is true.
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