Week 5 Quiz

1. believed that a child's social environment and the way they interact with others was very important in their learning.

All language theorists acknowledge nature and nurture both play significant roles in children’s language development. However, the theoretical debate to whether nature or nurture is the dominant tool during a child’s language

Olivia has always seemed to be ahead in her language abilities, such as in vocabulary and in advanced thinking skills of creating sentences and understandings of what someone is asking. At three years old, Olivia scored above average in her skills of language comprehension and production. She could tell a detailed story about a picture, in which we thought we could continue to help her develop by reading aloud at home, talking about

3.1 Describe how communication with children and young people differs across different age ranges and stages of development

* Communication and Language – a child who can effectively use the large movements, gestures and fine movements involved in speech is able to convey messages to others.

Question 2) Explain how speech, language and communication skills support each of the following areas in children’s development:

b. Think specifically of learning and behavior. Pretend you are in your first year of

(Tannen). However, Tannen does mention “Most important, children learn how to talk, how to have conversations, not only from their parents, but from their peers…”

"When language starts to come in, it does not introduce new meanings to the child. Rather, it is used to express only those meanings the child has already formulated independently of language." This statement would most likely be made by whom?

Given the central focus, describe how the standards and learning objectives within your learning segment address young adolescents’ abilities to use textual references to

The tendency to use actual literacy will increase as toddlers grow, but some are left to have a decrease or plain, which produces the lack of communication or vocal

C: Therefore I know how to speak English because I am in an English-speaking school, and was born and brought up in an area primarily consisting of English speakers.

b) Theory of acquisition – language is not an autonomous cognitive faculty, an understanding of learning process and the learners cognitive and functional prerequisites require consideration.

Shortly after Skinner wrote his book, a young linguist named Noam Chomsky (1959) wrote a strong critique of the Behaviorist theory for language learning.  Chomsky’s main argument against Behaviorism was this:

With this in mind, discuss the different roles that language can have in a child’s life.