PART 111

LINGUISTIC AND LITERACY DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS

NATURAL HISTORY OF LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE
DEVELOPMENT OF SOUND PATTERN
DIFFERENTIAL PATTERN
ACQUISITION OF MEANING
ROLE OF BABBLE
IMPROVEMENT OF SPEECH
1. SOCIALIZATION
2. ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE
PRONUNCIATION OF WORDS
Young children of today speak better than young children of past
generation
a) Advent of radio and televesion
b) Fewer of foreign-born and bilingual children
c) Rise of nursery school
d) Affording opportunities for language stimulation outside the
home for underpreviledges group of children
e) More leisure time for parents to spend with their children
f) Reduced amount of time that child are cared for nursemaid
of limited verbal activity
g) Provide more stimulating environment for their children
h) Treated more permissively and find greater acceptance in
the modern home
CONTENT OF SPEECH
AMOUNT OF TALKING
Intelligence
Type of discipline
Ordinal position
Family size
Socio econopmic status
Racial status
Bilingualism
LEARNING WORDS
a) Conditioned-response learning
b) Rote memory process
c) Trial-and-error learning
FUNCTION OF WORDS
a) As sign
b) As attributes of objects
c) As objects themselves
THEORIES OF LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
THE INNATIST THEORY (NOAM CHOMSKY)
THE COGNITIVIST THEORY (PIAGET)
THE SOCIAL CONTEXTUAL THEORY (VYGOTSKY)