The area between a child’s current developmental level, where he or she can solve problems independently, and the level of development that the child could achieve with the support of others is called what?
What is Zone of Proximal Development
100
What is an instructional conversation?
What is a conversation between teacher and student(s) that promotes learning
100
T/F It is a misconception that young children learn a second language faster than adolescents or adults.
What is True-Older children go through the stages of language learning faster than young children.
100
What is the term for the understandings and skills developed over generations that families need to function?
What is Funds of knowledge
100
Which theorist believed that cognitive development occurs through the child's conversation and interactions with more capable members of the culture?
What is Vygotsky
200
What application of Vygotsky’s theory involves having the teacher providing half done examples?
What is Assisted Learning
200
Children with _____ vocabularies have better reading comprension
What is Larger
200
Syntagmatic-paradigmatic shift is…
What is The changing of what might come next to organizing by meaning.
200
In instructional conversations, the goal is to what?
What is keep everyone cognitively engaged in a substantive conversation
200
Moving between two speech forms is called
What is code switching
300
Concrete operational thinking is not good for reasoning about
What is hypothetical problems that involve the coordination of many factors at once
300
Clues, reminders, encouragement, breaking problems down step by step are all examples of what?
What is Scaffolding
300
What kinds of questions should be limited in instructional conversations?
What is "Known Answer" questions
300
What is participants mediate each other's learning through dialogue about a shared experience?
What is instructional Conversations
300
What is it called when one has an understanding about their language and how it works?
What is Metalinguistic Awareness
400
What is normally followed by information that is consistent with the overall message?
What is Conjuctives
400
By the end of what grade can children create complex complete sentences?
What is Kindergarten
400
What prepares the listener for information that is inconsistent or out of keeping with the previous statements?
What is Disjunctives
400
What is the receptive vocabulary of a six year old?
What is 20,000 words
400
Genderlects are between
What is males and females
500
What are the 2 separate aspects to proficiency in a second language?
What is Face-to-face communications and academic uses of language such as reading text and doing grammar exercise.
500
By kindergarten, what amount of children’s language involves playing with words?
What is about 1/4
500
What involves the appropriate use of language to communicate?
What is Pragmatics
500
What figurative language do children learn during their middle years?
What is Similes, metaphors, and idioms
500
How do adults working with children cope with dialect differences? Can have 2 different answers.
What is
1) They can be sensitive to their own possible negative
stereotypes about children who speak a different dialect.
2) Can ensure comprehension by repeating instructions
using different words.