PSYC 3800 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Main Source, Cognitive Flexibility, English Language In England
29 Mar 2017
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Emergent literacy skills are critical for kids to be ready for school. Most american school programs expect all children to learn to read and write in english. A study by hammer: followed 88 children for 2 years, mothers of all the children spoke spanish, 2 groups of children. Those expected to speak both english and spanish. Additive bilingualism: keeping first language and adding another. Subtractive bilingualism: losing your first language after learning another. Bilingual and monolingual reach their language millstones at approximately the same time. For a child to be considered bilingual at least 25& of the childs language input must be another language. Critical periods for learning- if learning doesn"t happen then it never will. Sensitive periods are times when we are especially responsive to learning. However, there is no critical period that limits the possibility of language. There is a period for accurate language pronunciation: the earlier the closer to the native language it will be.
