Language
The systematic and conventional use of sounds or signs or written symbols for the purpose of communication or self-expression, that is complex and multifaceted is the definition of
Language
This person was found living wild in the woods who provided opportunities to examine the nature of the human species in its nature state.
Victor the boy of Aveyron
The goal of this research is to describe children's language use and their underlying understandings of language as vehicle for learning to behavior in a way that is acceptable by society at different ages and to identify the factors that influence that development course.
Language Socialization
During this stage of the research the researchers write down what was recorded
Transcribing
Pragmatics; phonology; lexicon, morphology and syntax are the components of
Oral Language Development
Children at this age could produce about 300 words and word combinations.
Age 2
This view holds that language is constructed by the child using inborn mental equipment but operating on information provided by the environment.
constructivism
The purpose of collecting these is to find out the nature of the language children produce.
Speech Samples
This person was used to test the critical period hypothesis
Genie
Children develop knowledge in the different domains of language in a sequence. True or false? Why?
False. Children develop knowledge in the different domains concurrently. Knowledge in one domain can be used to acquire knowledge in another.
This approach of studying language is to observe what emerges in the course of normal development.
Baby Biogrphies
Children acquire language 1) rapidly, 2) effortlessly, and 3) without direct instructions are the 3 facts of language development according to
Nativism
This theory states that children acquire language because they want to communicate with others. Their social -cognitive abilities serve the language acquisition process.
Social interactionism.
Adam and Eve are the examples to mark the beginning of what era of studying children's language?
Chomskyan
Knowing the difference in meaning between Man bites dog and Dog bites man, and knowing that Man bite dog and Bit man dog are both ungrammatical are the examples of knowledge on
Morphology and Syntax.
The view that human ability to acquire language is specific to language is part of a larger theory known as
the modularity thesis
This approach argues that development is the result of interactions between genes and the environment and their mutual influences as they unfold over rime.
the developmental systems approach
The goal of this approach to study the language development is to describe the structures and process in the brain that serve language development.
Biological approach
This person caused a revolution by saying that what speakers do is not as interesting as the mental grammar that underlies what speakers do.
Noam Chomsky
The child who learns a language achieves the ability to recognize and produce a set of sounds and learns how these sounds can and cannot be combined into possible words are the evidence of what features of language?
Complex and multifaceted
This approach seeks to explain language acquisition as the learning of patterns among smaller elements of sound or meaning.
Connectionism
The view that the nature of language and its acquisition have nothing to do with the fact that language is used to communicate is
Formalism
This theory is not among the current contenders as accounts of how children acquire language
behaviorism
Study this topic helps teachers to understand the nature of the language skills that characterize children from diverse backgrounds and identifying the best approaches of teaching them.
Language Development