Language Theories
"Blank slate." It refers to the idea children come as "blank slates," meaning they have no prior knowledge or dispositions.
What does "tabula rasa" mean and what does it refer to?
Practices movement of tongue for future production of speech sounds
What is a fetus doing in utero before they are born?
These are the FIVE components of oral language.
What are phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics?
This is a child who is learning two different languages at the same time beginning from infancy.
What is a simultaneous language learner?
Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Vocabulary, Fluency, and Comprehension.
What are the five components of reading?
The father of behaviorism. He believed humans learn language through reward and punishment.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
This age infant begins making cooing sounds, producing vowel sounds (i.e. /aaahhh/ and /ooooo/)
What is a three-month-old doing with language?
The smallest unit of meaning in language.
What is a morpheme?
This is a child older than three-years-old who is already proficient in their home language and is now acquiring and additional language.
What is a sequential language learner?
A syllable with a consonant and ending with a vowel, which is heard as a long vowel. (i.e. /re/ in "re/late" or /pa/ in"paper.")
What is an open syllable?
Who is Noam Chompsky?
At this age the vocabulary explosion begins, where children are learning and remembering 10 words each day.
What is an 18-month-old language learner doing?
When a listener understands that an advertisement's claim that a toothpaste "will make your smile brighter," is an attempt at persuading them to buy the toothpaste.
What is pragmatics?
Children combine the vocabulary and syntactic structure from two separate language systems, which increases their ability to express a variety of concepts.
Teaching and learning the letters or graphemes that represent the sounds in oral language.
What is phonics?
Language Acquisition Devise. This is an aspect of the human brain that presents at 18 months, which initiates the process of acquiring language.
What is the LAD?
This type of language is a universal way people talk to infants including slower pace, more variance in pitch, emphasis on vowels, and shorter utterances. This way of speaking increases attention to language from the infant, as determined by MRI's.
What is child directed language?
Sound produced by the passage of airflow through the larynx and out of the mouth. It is often called the "voice" of oral language
What is a vowel?
This is the inability to produce speech sounds correctly or fluently or problems with one’s voice.
What is a speech disorder?
Students learn vocabulary words through exposure to and participation with rich conversation along, with with a variety of experiences.
What is incidental or indirect vocabulary instruction?
What is the Behaviorist theory's greatest challenge?
At this age 90% of utterances are understood by all other language speakers.
What is a 24 - 30 month-old able to do?
The interruption or the restriction of airflow in oral language.
What is a consonant?
This is a developmental or acquired disorder that relate to receptive and expressive language.
What is a language impairment?
When a student reads a story, they understand and articulate characters, setting, sequence, problem, solution, author's message, and application of the story beyond the text.
What is reading comprehension?