EDPS 200 Lecture 5: Chapter 5 Language Development, Diversity and Education Lecture and Textbook Notes
14 Feb 2019
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Cultures create words for concepts that are important to them. Children develop language as they build on other cognitive abilities by trying to make sense of what they hear, looking for patterns and making up rules. Built-in biases and rules may limit the search and guide the pattern recognition. Reward and correction play a role in helping children learn correct language use, but the child"s thought processes also are important. The system of relationships among the speech sounds that constitute the fundamental components of language. The branch of linguistics and logic concerned w/ meaning. The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. The branch of linguistics dealing w/ language in use and the contexts in which it is used. This perspective says that children learn language largely by imitation, and by rxns ying les age ts in rxns ally.
