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Chapter 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| vocabulary knowledge and syntax | knowledge of the grammar rules by which words are arranged in English |
| oral language | expressive language |
| listening abilities | receptive language |
| Behaviorists | believe that oral language is learned through a process of conditioning and shaping based on response to stimulus, reward, or punishment |
| innatist | which holds that language learning is natural for human beings. |
| construvists | spring from the work of Jean Piaget who believed that language development is linked to cognitive development |
| environment | the people in the environment plays a critical role in the development of language according to social interactionist explanations of oral language development |
| Preproduction | this is a short period in which the learner is silent but is actively listening to the more capable language users in the environment |
| Early production | this phase can last up to a year or more. The learner begins using single words and short phrases |
| Emergent speech | Learner is capable of sentences and short narratives |
| Developing Fluency | Learner becomes capable of longer narratives/conversations, begins reacting and writing, and uses invented spellings in his writing |
| Advanced Fluency | Learner uses conventions of speaking, reading, and writing |
| academic vocabulary | made up of "words that appear in a variety of content areas and have different meanings in different academic contexts |
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