HDF 313 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Peekaboo, Long-Term Memory, Joint Attention
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Scaffolding: children are sensitive to gestures and tones. Turn-taking: baby games patty cake, peek-a-boo. Recasts: repeating back to them what they"ve just said. Expansions a way of adding to the information the child has given you: me up oh, you want me to pick you up. Very important to participate in meal time. Infancy is the prime time to develop multiple languages. This may take longer but will happen. Babies really need to be read to. Reading: language as an extension of symbolic thinking: How do we learn to recognize written word: a language rich environment, printed words recognized from context, meaning of printed word extracted from the text (information stored in long term memory. ) Learning linguistic rules: begin to recognize (or learn) separate sounds: phenomes, begin to recognize (or learn) separate words: morphemes, begin to recognize (or learn) separate meaning of words arranged in sentences: syntax.