Child Language Acquisition Stages: From Cooing to Sentences
Chapter 14: Child Language Acquisition
Early Stages
Caregiver Speech
During the first few years, interaction with other language users is crucial for a child’s language development. A simplified speech style, often used by caregivers, plays a significant role. This “caregiver speech” (also known as motherese or child-directed speech) is characterized by:
- Frequent questions with exaggerated intonation
- Extra loudness and slower tempo with longer pauses
- Simple sentence structures and repetition
Cooing
The
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Factors Influencing Reading
Physical and Psychological Factors
The ideal reading age is believed to be between 6 and 6 1/2 years. Some argue that girls are ready earlier than boys due to faster maturation (teeth appearance, earlier speech, etc.). Vision is the most important sensory aspect.
Social, Emotional, and Cultural Factors
The child’s maturational level involves self-confidence, independence, perseverance, self-control, tolerance, emotional stability, and the ability to work cooperatively. Reading
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Linguistic and stylistic features in a fragment of the Cantar de Mio Cid
Understanding Two-Part Sentence Structures
Two-Part Sentence Structures
Two-part structure sentences are those with two or more members (or phrases) and can be analyzed structurally by their parts. Two main groups are recognized: averbal and verbal.
Averbal Two-Part Sentences
Averbal two-part sentences have no conjugated verbs (verboids—gerunds, participles, and infinitives—are not part of the conjugation paradigm). They consist of two parts: the support and the input. The relationship between these two parts is interdependent. These
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Oral Communication Techniques
Discussion
Discussion is a type of oral communication where two or more people exchange ideas on a topic.
Conversation
Conversation is a type of oral communication where two or more people talk to each other.
Simulation
Simulation is the imitation of a real or imaginary situation to express something that has already happened or will happen.
Dramatization
Dramatization is a technique to represent an action, fact, or situation that has happened through the intervention of several
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Oral Language Lesson 5 Summary
What is Reading? What is Writing?
Glossary
Visual Field: Fragment of the text covered in each stare. Inexperienced readers use a very small field of view. Skilled readers, however, cover a much larger field of view in each fixation.
Displacement: Oscillation of the eye from one fixation point to another.
Outlines of Knowledge: Mental structures that the subject constructs in interaction with the environment. These structures organize their knowledge and how to use it. All
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