English Language- Summer AS task Brooke Hamblin
Initial Ideas: I am going to undergo an investigation on child language acquisition. I will specifically be focusing on the language development from the ages of reception to year one. In order to obtain this information, I have gained permission to work with the children in Mangotsfield primary school.
Links:
Linguistlist.org/lang-acq
All children acquire language in the same way- no matter what language or how many languages. This source specifies that it is a gradual process and numerous errors will be made throughout. Children imitate their parent’s language during their early stages. However, when children start socialising with other children, their language adapts and children’s again. The environment is crucial when children are learning language; they model their behaviour on what goes on around them.
Thestudentroom.co.uk/revision:childlangacq-speak
This source breaks down the stages of a child’s learning in months. It states that from 18-24 months the child’s vocabulary will consist of two hundred words however, there will be no consistency. Within this source, three theories are also discussed: Imitation theory, Innateness theory and the fact language is acquired because it is necessary.
Aggslangauge.wordpress/Chomsky
This article is based around Noam Chomsky and his theory that every child is based with a language acquisition device which encodes the major principles of language. This article is different to other articles due to the fact it states language cannot be learnt through imitation, as the language spoken around them is usually by adults and they do not always speak with grammatically correct English and their English is often broken and irregular. In addition to this, it states that all children, regardless of their intellectual ability will become fluent in their native language by the age of five.
www.theschoolrun.com/what-your-child-learns-reception
Within this article, it states the methods which children learn method in a normal school day. Some methods include: role play, listening, show and tell. The aim for children in schools is that they work towards constructing full sentences.
Slideshare.com/childlanguageacqusition
This article states that children must understand lexis before they can use it. Question and answer is a popular format which rapidly helps speed up the process of language acquisition. A theory which is discussed within this source would be ‘Bellugis theories’.
Reading log:
Lingumd-edu
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