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Bilingualism
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- 1what are children innate abilities shaped by?1. linguistic environment
2.perceptions of speech and sound
3.their own productions
holophrastic "whole word stage" = one word utterances convey meaning of a whole sentence - 2what are the activities in which language is learned?imitation
reinforcement
analogy
motherese - 3imitation?plays a role in language development my imating what parents, teachers etc do
- 4reinforcement?kids produce grammtically correct sentences because adults positively reinforce by correction when the children say something ungrammtaical
- 5analogy?children learn by hearing a sentence and using it as a model to form another sentence
- 6motherese?adults speak in simplified language called "motherese". Also called child directed speech or baby talk
- 7what is billingualism or billingual language acquisition?simultaneous acquistion of 2 languages beginning in the infancy or before the age of 3 they have two first languages
- 8multilingualismthree or more languages learned
- 9theories of bilingual development1. sequential billingualism
2.unitrary language hypothesis
3.dual language system hypothesis - 10sequential billingualismsimilar to simultaneious billingualism by acquiring 2 languages but is different because one language is learned after the other languagge usually by 3 yrs old before developing a proficiency with one language.
example: child learns 2nd language in day care; or learns a 2nd language when grandparents move to town and start spending a lot of time with child - 11unitary language hypothesisolder hypothesis belief is that billingual children have a single language system that eventually split into two.
example: single system starts with lexical items from both languages the are acquiring . - 12dual language hypothesisproposes that their are two seperate languages systems from the onset of language development for those acquring two languages
- 13what is code switchingthe movement back and forth between two languages or dialects within the same sentence or discourse .
- 14what is intrautterance mixing and intrasentenial mixing?1. mixing two languages in an utterance
2.mixing two languages in a sentence. - 153 main reasons that bilingual children may code switch1. fill lexical or grammtical gaps
2. pragmatic effect- to emphasize what they are saying
3. Social norms- show they belong to two cultures - 16SLA or L2acquiring a second language after having a solid first language usually takes place in the context of school setting
- 17L1first language
- 18L2second language
- 19interlanguageprocess where a person includes elements of L1 and L2 as well as elements not in either
- 20language stabilizationinterchange of language stops evolving and L2 learners reach a plateau
- 21language fossilizationpermanently established interlanguage of L2. L2 is deviant from the language norms and has errors in performance, regardless of amount of exposure to the language * lack of research in this area
- 22ESLlearns english after moving or is in school that uses english
- 23English speakers of other languages ESOLEnglish is an additional language-speaks 2 or more lang. and then learns english
- 24ELLstudent described with limited English proficiency. 11% of pblic school children
- 25what is the current policy supporting special services to ELLNo child left behind act in 2002. us. reform movement title III-funding to the states to implement language programs as well we research based instruction and professional development to teachers
- 26what is the controversy on how to instruct ELLEnglish only, spanish only or billingual approach
states determine which method they may follow
research has shown that bilingual approaches are more effective
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