First Language Acquisition notes
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This page gathers over 10 First Language Acquisition notes on speech stages, theories, reading and writing. Most are university-level, with some secondary-level material for university students and professional candidates studying acquisition, school students revising language development, and teachers looking for material. Pick a note to begin.
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- Theories of Language Acquisition90
- Behaviourist Theory10
- Innatism and Universal Grammar29
- Interactionist and Cognitive Theories10
- Critical Period Hypothesis9
- Child-Directed Speech28
- Stages of Language Development53
- Phonological Development12
- Lexical and Semantic Development11
- Grammatical Development18
- Language Functions and Pragmatic Development116
- Reading and Writing Development9
- Bilingual Language Acquisition9
- First and Second Language Acquisition Compared29
- Second Language Acquisition22
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Language Acquisition Write Up Language Acquisition Write Up: Exam Year Unknown What Was Written: Throughout the transcripts Joe displays linguistic skills from a range of different developmental stages, ranging from holophrastic utterances to tele...
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Language Acquisition AO1 Holophrastic - 1 word utterances; 12-18 monthsTwo-words - 2 word combinations; 18-24 monthsTelegraphic - 3 or more words combined; 24-36 monthsPose-telegraphic - Grammatically more complex; 36+ months Stages of phonol...
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Language Acquisition - created from Mind Map Questions in Acquisition: Lightfoot (1982) writes about the central problem: how do children master their native languages? Lightfoot argues that the made problem is that there is a 'defiency of the stimulus' meaning ...
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Reading BOOK STAGES Baby/toddler books Focus on speech development Provide pictures for children to label (Jean Aitchinson labelling, networking and packaging) Relevant hypernyms/hyponyms Nouns and adjectives most common Obje...
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Language Acquisition AO2 Nativists - Humans have inbuilt capacity to acquire language; Chomsky, Eric Lenneburg Behaviourists - language is acquired through imitation and reinforcement; B.F. Skinner Social internationalists - those who believe...
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PSYCHOLINGUISTICS - created from Mind Map Language acquisition Future trends Alternative theories
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Child Language Acquisition Skinner (1957) Behaviourism Accounted for language development by means of environmental influence. He argued that children learn language based on behaviourist reinforcement principals by associating words with meani...
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First Language Acquisition - creado desde un Mapa Mental Behaviourism Innatist approach to language acquisition Developmental perspective
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Chapter 1: First Language Acquisition - created from Mind Map Insights from Developmental Psychology:Focus on the Child. "Do children learn language in the same way they learn other things,such as how to tie their shoes or how to build with blocks,or do children have a special c...
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Linguistics Early communication Communication development: Development is predictable and milestones emerge in a predictable sequence. They emerge or are mastered in a timeline that is consistent for most children, and alth...
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3. Does Everybody in the World Speak a Language? Does Everybody in the World Speak a Language? There are some exceptions. They're very few, and they're always people who are suffering from some very physical, psychological or social impediments. Examples of people s...
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Child Acqusition Beginnig of language develpment before birth:efore birth a child has acclimatised to the sounds of its native language crying: the child can express itself vocally. Different kinds of ‘cry’ can be identified
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Innateness Theory - created from Mind Map Definition: Chomsky's Theory Tabula Rasa (Blank Slate)
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Children's Writing B.M. Kroll - There are 4 stages in the development of children's writing. Preparatory Stage Master basic motor skills. Learn basic principles of the spelling sysytem. Consolidation Stage Child writes in the same way t...
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THE LINGUISTIC LEARNING PROCESS - creado desde un Mapa Mental MAIN LINGUISTIC THEORIES Others approaches (cognitive and affecive elements) LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
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Second Language Acquisition - created from Mind Map Language learned other than the person's mother tongue A foreign language/ foreign tongue L2 cannot be mastered the same level as an L1
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LANGUAGE LEARNING IN EARLY CHILDHOOD - creado desde un Mapa Mental THE FIRST THREE YEARS THE PRE-SCHOOL YEARS THE SCHOOL YEARS
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Linguistic and Pragmatic Competence - created from Mind Map Universality Species Specificity Productivity
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Cognitive language Dev. in Children - 2 Pinker & Lang
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Start with Language Acquisition AO1 if you want a short overview of speech stages. Its notes move from one-word utterances to more complex speech. For an example of language analysis, Language Acquisition Write Up discusses developmental stages in transcripts.
Other notes take different routes through the unit. Language Acquisition AO2 outlines explanations associated with theorists including Chomsky and Skinner. Reading looks at book stages and speech development, while Children's Writing sets out stages of writing development.
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Try Language Acquisition AO1 for an overview of speech stages, from one-word utterances to more complex speech. If you are more interested in explanations of acquisition, Language Acquisition AO2 introduces several approaches and their associated theorists. Both give you a starting point before moving to the other notes.
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The collection includes notes on theories, reading and children's writing. Reading discusses book stages and speech development, while Children's Writing sets out stages of writing development. Child Language Acquisition also discusses Skinner's account of language development and the role of environmental influence.
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