Child Learning Acquisition

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  • Created on: 07-01-13 17:52
What is the name of the pre-verbal phase for around 6 months old?
Babbling
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What helps children communicate during their phonological development?
Simplification
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What is one of the features of simplification used by children?
Cluster Reduction
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What is Deletion?
A child's way of dropping a consonant in a word
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Name one common class of objects seen from babies first words?
Specific Objects (like Mummy and Daddy)
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Name a common mistake made by children whilst developing their language
underextension
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Name a stage in a child's language development that comes after their first word
Telegraphic
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Name one of Halliday's (1975) seven functions
imaginative
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What is a 'virtuous error'?
When a child applies a regular past tense inflection to regular verbs, yet they understand how past tense verbs are formed.
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What was the 'wug' test
A test that by the theorist Berko (1958) found that children applied the 's' to the name of an unknown creature, showing they'd heard the rule so often that it was second nature to make the creature's name plural.
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name the theorist who believes in the 'input theory'
Jerome Bruner (1983)
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Who developed the 'Cognitive Approach'?
Piaget
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What did the theorist Skinner believe?
That language is acquired through imitation and reinforcement
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Name one theorist who believed language is innate and inbuilt?
Chomsky (1965)
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What is the name given to the type of language people commonly use when interacting with children?
CDS (Child Directed Speech)
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Name one feature used with CDS?
Diminutive forms
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What are the two main approaches taken when teaching children how to read?
The phonic and whole-word approaches
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Who identified that there are six stages in a child's reading development, including 'stage 0'.
Jeanne S.Chall (1983)
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What were children said to do during 'Stage 0: Pre-reading and pseudo-reading'?
'pretend' to read and are increasingly able to name letters.
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