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1. What is meant by the imaginative stage identified by Halliday

  • that children use language to express feelings, and express growing perceptions of the self
  • that children use language to cross the boundary between reality and fantasty
  • that children use language to communicate factual information
  • that language is used to control the actions of others
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2. Whats an ascender?

  • parts of letters that go up from the line
  • using symbols to express meaning
  • parts of letters that go down from the line
  • understanding that in English we write from left to right

3. Who believed that children are born with an innate knowledge of the structure of language

  • Bruner
  • Piaget
  • Chomsky
  • Assowa

4. What is a common feature of the telegraphic stage?

  • that children commonly omit function words
  • that children use holophrases
  • that children have grammatically complex combinations
  • that children use two word combinations

5. What did the behaviourist Skinner say?

  • When children hear examples or language they fit these into their (unconscious) mental model of how language works.
  • Children learn to speak by imitating their parents and being rewarded or punished according to the accuracy of their utterances
  • Langyage development goes hand in hand with the development of thinking and knowledge (cognitive development).
  • Language is social 'children learn to use language initially... to get what they want, to play games, to stay connected to those whom are dependent.

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