Infants learn oral language from other human role models through a process involving stimulation, imitation, rewards, punishment, and practice.
What is Behaviorist theory
100
The short period in which the learner is silent but is actively listening to the more capable language users in his environment.
What is preproduction.
100
Quality literacy experiences occur here when teachers read books aloud to students and provide access to books and other print materials. Children's first learning outside of home.
What is preschool experiences.
100
A simple and quick way to measure students growth in conversational oral language development.
What is Informal Language Inventory.
100
Structured conversation between teachers and children around stories, information texts, and other media sources.
What is Critical Dialogues.
200
Language learning is natural for human beings
What is innatist theory
200
This phase can last up to a year or more. It is when the learner begins using single words and short phrases.
What is early production.
200
Parents are their children's first teachers, and ________ are their first schools.
What is homes.
200
Developed for ESL students but is also useful for native English speakers with limited oral language development.
What is Student Oral Language Observation Matrix.
200
Oral tradition in which beliefs, politics, triumphs, and family stories are shared. Can be a powerful tool for language development.
What is Storytelling.
300
Language development is linked to cognitive development.
What is Constructivist theory.
300
The learner is capable of sentences and short narratives.
What is emergent speech.
300
An environment where children are enveloped in a classroom rich in oral language where they can frequently interact with adults and peers.
What is Language-Rich Classroom Environments.
300
Measures speaking and listening skills critical to meeting new standards in today's classroom. Can track children's progress in language and literacy development.
What is Teacher Rating of Oral Language and Literacy.
300
Shared reading of a book as the teacher asks students to respond to strategic questions while reading.
What is Dialogic Reading
400
Language development is greatly influenced by physical, social, and linguistic factors.
What is social interactionist.
400
The learner becomes capable of longer narratives/conversations, begins reading and writing, and uses invented spellings in his writing.
What is developing fluency.
400
Professional parents spend more than ______ minutes daily interacting with their young children compared to welfare parents who spend 15 minutes each day.
What is more than 40.
400
A set of several standardized, individually administered measure of early language and literacy development. Assesses language development for children ages 3 to 5.
What is Get It Got It Go! Picture Naming Test.
400
Requiring students to always speak in sentence form. Students must answer using five words to make a sentence.
What is The Rule of Five.
500
Vygotsky's explanation for how teachers can help students move from where they are developmentally, into new frontiers of learning. Part of the social interactionist view.
What is zone of proximal development
500
The learner uses conventions of speaking, reading, and writing.
What is advanced fluency.
500
A set of several standardized, individually administered to measure early literacy development. Assesses 3 of the National Reading Panel's 5 essential components.
What is DIBELS. Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills Word Use Fluency Test.
500
Pairs of students work at a "talk table" using a "'talk box" for at least 15 minutes per week of uninterrupted talk and play.