LING 2P99 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Vocab (Song), Phoneme, Phonology

• School: Brock University
• Department: Applied Linguistics
• Course: LING 2P99
• Professor: Lynn Dempsey

Document Summary

More than children enter school with significant deficiencies in language, early literacy skills and motivation to learn that put them at risk for long term reading difficulties. Spoken language skills and literacy skills are in a bidirectional relationship. By time literacy instruction begins, there is already big difference between kids in spoken language skills. Some kids better at understanding more complex sentences. Differences in oral language skills caused by. Ses accounts for of variance in children"s vocab size. Ask to point to bus and you do, you understand word bus. Point to object and ask what is and you say bus then you know word bus. Ses gap appears early and widens until kindergarten and then remains stable. Higher ses kids acquire language more quickly and so the gap between rich and poor kid vocab widens. During school, rate of vocab growth is similar across ses group.