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Language

Explore the language rule systems, phonology, semantics, syntax, and pragmatics in language acquisition and development. Learn about bilingualism, reading, and teaching strategies.

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Language

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  1. Language A system of rules for using symbols to construct meaning

  2. modes

  3. methods

  4. Read aloud

  5. Language Rule Systems • Phonology (sounds) • Semantics (meaning) • Syntax (structure) • Pragmatics (function)

  6. Language Rule Systems • Gunning (2008, p. 4) adds two more: • Morphology – word formation (a part of syntax) • Prosody – intonation and rhythm of speech (a part of pragmatics)

  7. Phonology • ~ 77 Phonemes • ~ 45 in English • Int’l. Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) • Articulatory Phonetics • Voice anatomy

  8. Semantics • Meaningful cries: • hunger, anger, pain • Vocabulary • Fast mapping • 12 months = 1 word, 18=20, 24=270 • Hart and Risley • Professional / Middle / Poor families • 11 / 6 / 3 million words by age 3 • Over- and underextension

  9. Syntax • Grammatical structure • S-V-O, S-O-V • Morphemes • Overregularization • Nouns, verbs, adjectives, articles • Conjunctions, embedded sentences, tag questions, ido-do, passive

  10. Pragmatics Communicative competence Knowing when to speak, when not to, what to talk about and with whom, when, where, and in what manner to interact Burst feeding

  11. Pragmatics, continued • Infants must • Focus attention • Recognize gaze and gesture • Associate sounds and voices with certain events and people • Develop reciprocity • Use language to communicate

  12. Pragmatics, continued • Cultural context • Dialect, hierarchy, space • Language functions • Halliday, Tough • Baron: Affection, Control, Information, Pedagogy, Social exchange • Discourse - Tele-talk, greetings, lecture, caregiver speech

  13. Language Acquisition Theories Virtually every child, without special training, exposed to surface structures of language in many interaction contexts, builds for himself – in a short period of time and at an early stage in his cognitive development – a deep-level, abstract, and highly complex system of linguistic structure and use. (Lindfors 1987)

  14. Nurture = Behaviorism • Attention • Repetition • Approval (reinforcement)

  15. Nature = Nativist • Language Acquisition Device • Chomsky: Colorless green ideas sleep furiously • Pinker: Language Instinct (1995)

  16. Biological Influences • Brain’s role • Hemispheric specialization • Broca’s area – structure • Wernicke’s area – comprehension

  17. Biological prewiring • Chomsky’s view: Language Acquisition Device • Critical Period for Language • Case of Genie • Critical period not certain

  18. Social interaction • Responsive interaction • Siegel: “human connections shape the neural connections from which the mind emerges” • Bruner’s Language Acquisition Support System (LASS) • Caregiver speech

  19. Social interaction • Piaget: Thought and Language • Egocentric • Addressed to no one • Vygotsky: Language and Thought • Private speech • Inner speech • Communication with the self

  20. Social interaction • Whole Language approach • Emergent Literacy

  21. Language Development Milestones COOING • 4 weeks – precursors to vowels • 8 weeks – real vowels • 12 weeks – discovers own voice BABBLING • 6 months – Echolalia • m, p, b, k, g with vowels • 8 months – Vocables

  22. Milestones FIRST WORDS • 12 months – • Holophrases • Overgeneralized speech

  23. Milestones TELEGRAPHIC SPEECH • Identificaton – “See doggie” • Location – “Book there” • Repetition – “More milk” • Nonexistence – “Allgone thing” • Negation – “Not wolf” • Possession – “My candy” • Attribution – “Big car” • Agent-action – “ Mama walk” • Action-direct object – “Hit you” • Action-indirect object – “Give Papa” • Action-instrument – “Cut knife” • Question – “Where ball?

  24. Bilingualism • Simultaneous • Successive

  25. Bilingualism • True Bilingual education • Teach immigrant children in native language • Add English gradually • Bilingualism does not interfere with language development.

  26. Bilingualism • English as a Second Language • Content curriculum in English • Assistance in ESL • Intervention

  27. Teaching Read aloud

  28. Learning about speech • Prenatal auditory experiences influence neonatal auditory preferences (DeCasper & Spence 1986) • Caregiver speech • Extensions, expansions, recasts • Dramatic play • Metalinguistic awareness

  29. Learning about Print • Environmental Print • Book Print

  30. Learning about writing • Letter like forms • Constancy of position in space • Reversals • Dyslexia • Spacing • Spelling: public and private (invented)

  31. Learning about reading Five Big Ideas in Early Literacy • Phonemic awareness • Phonics • Vocabulary • Comprehension • Fluency (National Reading Panel, 1999)

  32. Learning about reading • Alphabetic principle • Sight words • Part-to-whole instruction • Whole-to-part instruction • Genres • Baby board books • Predictable books • Fairy tales and Mother Goose • Poems and Songs

  33. Reading aloud is the single most important activity for building the understandings and skills that are essential for later reading success NAEYC (1998) Learning to Read & Write.

  34. Language Development • Infancy • Vocalization: Begins with babbling • Early communications are pragmatic • One-word (holophrase) stage: 10 to 13 months • Two word (telegraphic) stage: 18 to 24 months • Roger Brown: Mean Length of Utterance (MLU) • Five stages of MLU index language maturity

  35. Language Development • Early childhood: Advances in • Phonology • Morphology • Syntax • Semantics • Pragmatics • Sequences of development • Words/vocabulary emerge (12 months) • Transition to combining words/phrases into sentences (24 months) • Transition to complex sentences (age 2 to 3 through elementary years)

  36. Middle and Late Childhood: Reading • Chall’s model describes the development of reading in five stages with the first ranging from birth to first grade and the final stage in the high school years.

  37. Debate • There is debate about the whole language approach vs. the basic skills-&-phonics approach.

  38. Whole language approach • stresses that the learning to read should parallel the child’s natural learning of language. The premise is that reading should be integrated with other skills.

  39. Basic skills-&-phonics approach • emphasizes teaching phonetics and its rules for translating written symbols into sounds.

  40. A combination of the two approaches is probably best.

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