The human brain’s inbuilt capacity to acquire language.
LAD
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A vowel in which there is a perceptible change in quality during a syllable.
Diphthong
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An invented word that has a consistent meaning.
Protoword
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A single word expressing a whole idea.
Holophrase
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Those who believe that language is acquired through imitation and reinforcement.
Behaviourists
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A feature of a child’s language where the word used to label something is ‘stretched’ to include things that aren’t normally part of that word’s meaning.
Overextension
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Syntactic errors made by young children in which the non-standard utterance reveals some understanding, though incomplete, of standard syntax.
Virtuous error
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A learner’s extension of a word meaning or grammatical rule beyond its normal use.
Overgeneralisation
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The commenting on, extending and rephrasing of a child’s utterance.
Recast
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This refers to the child’s interaction with the adults around them and how this interaction supports language development.
LASS
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Errors made by children when reading.
Miscue
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A graphic unit in which two symbols combine, or any sequence of two letters produced as a single sound, e.g. ‘sh’.
Digraph
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
A vowel in which there is a perceptible change in quality during a syllable.
Back
Diphthong
Card 3
Front
An invented word that has a consistent meaning.
Back
Card 4
Front
A single word expressing a whole idea.
Back
Card 5
Front
Those who believe that language is acquired through imitation and reinforcement.
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