Younger children need physical items to support their play and development.
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The Zone of Proximal Development suggests that children and adult can work together to move towards competence, knowledge and independence.
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Pretend Play (sometimes called sociodramatic play) allows children to adopt roles and create identities. Usually starts around age four.
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Children have a larger vocabulary if their mothers interact with them regularly.
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Language Acquisition Support System: daily routines have language-based rules which allow children to learn them (such as non-verbal actions, and prosodic features, turn-taking and syntax)
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When adults use books to interact with children, it encourages their development
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Suggested that children had a critical period in which they can learn or acquire language.
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Reinforcement- a behaviourist view, that suggests that when developing language, children need encouragement to develop themselves.
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Language Acquisition Device: humans have a L.A.D, which is an innate mechanism that allows children to process language.
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Those who believe the ability to acquire language is innate.