Child Language Development

Child Language Development

1. Child directed speech

   • The theory that adults change the way they speak when they are talking and interacting with children

2. Sentence Frames

   • Using the same structure over and over, filling a part of the sentence with a different word everytime, e.g. "that's a..." "that's a..."

3. Expansion

   • when an adult fills out the childs utterances

4. Recasting

   • Baby's vocabulary is put into a new utterance

5. Emergent literacy

   • when you engage with a child through a book. What children absorb from a book before they start school

6. Phonics

   • How a word sounds

7. Logographic

   • Child recognizes words using salient graphic cues. The child cannot read novel or non words

8. Alphabetic

   • The child uses individual grapheme to phoneme correspondences. Lter the child can use conditional rules, e.g. their own name

9. Orthographic

   • The child recognizes strings of letters and accesses pronunciation without decoding these strings. Not sounding out.

10. Onset

    • The initial consonant or consonant blend before the vowel

11. Rime

    • Often a rhyme, a vowel and any consonants that follow

12. Phoneme

    • What you hear

13. Grapheme

    • What you see

14. Positive reinforcement

    • When you tell the child what they have done correct and then praise them

15. Negative reinforcement

    • When an adult tells a child what they have done wrong

16. Scaffolding

    • Language acquisition support system

17. LASS

    • Language scaffolds childrens language

18. Miscue analysis

    • How you describe it when they read the one word

19. Graphophonic

    • Looking at the shape or words, linking these to familiar graphemes/words to interpret them

20. Semantic

    • Understanding what words mean and making connections between words in order to decode new ones

21. Syntactic

    • Applying their knowledge of word order and word classes to work out if the word seems right in that part of the sentence

22. Pseudo reading

    • 'Pretend' reading. some letter and word recognition. predicting single words or ther next stage of the story

23. Initial reading

    • When children start to learn the relationship between graphemes and phonemes

24. Confirmation and fluency

    • Reading text quickly, accurately and fluently, paying attention to words and letters

25. Homophone

    • Sound the same but spelt differently

26. Diagraph

    • Two letters one sound