click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
EDUC 322
Chapter 2 Notes
Term | Definition |
---|---|
Language | essentially an agreed-on communication system |
Humans use language for | a tool to get their needs met, for learning, for thinking for problem solving, and for sharing ideas and feelings |
Expressive language | speaking and writing |
Receptive language | listening and reading |
6 interrelated components of language | phonology, orthography, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics |
Phonology | sounds used to express language |
Prosodic features | speaking with expression |
articulatory units | elements of speech such as individual sounds, syllables, and words |
intonation | vocal pitch |
stress | speech intensity |
Juncture | slight pauses between parts of spoken words, note. difference between "I scream" and "ice cream" |
Orthography | spelling patterns used in English, linking letters (graphemes) to sounds (phonemes) in spoken language. |
morphology | breaking words apart in order to study the structures that create meaning. |
derivational morpheme | adding a letter to or changing letters within a word thereby changing the part of speech |
schema theory | idea that new knowledge is connected to what the learner already knows |
pragmatics | knowing how language works and is used in one's culture |
Professional parents | spend 40+ minutes a day interacting with their young children respond to their children 250 times per hour approved and encouraged their children 40 times per hour |
welfare parents | spend 15 minutes each day respond 50 times per hour encourage their children 4 times per hour |
Common core state standards | 1. comprehension and collaboration 2. presentation of knowledge and ideas |
Teacher Rating of Oral Language and Literacy (TROLL) | tool that allows teachers to simultaneously assess children's expressive (spoken) oral language along with their early reading and writing development |
myIGDIs: picture naming test | a reliable and valid assessment of children's expressive oral lamguage |
Oral Language Acquisition Invertory-2 (OLAI-2) | used to assess children's acquisition of oral language structures and components |
Test of Language Development (TOLD) | one of the most used test of oral language development for students ages 4 to 17. Used for screening, diagnostic, and outcome |
mean length of utterance (MLU) | the average number of words spoken in a statement |