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what is contextualized language
language grounded in the immediate context or the here and now
what is decontextualized language
relies on language to construct meaning
what is emergent literacy
the earliest period of learning about reading and writing
Children's literacy abilities depend heavily on what?
oral language skills
emergent literacy achievements depend largely on children's what?
metalinguistic ability
What is metalinguistic ability?
ability to view language as an object of attention.
What are 3 important achievements in emergent literacy for preschoolers?
alphabet knowledge, print awareness and phonological awareness
What is alphabet knowledge?
children's knowledge about the letters of the alphabet
What is print awareness?
children's understanding of the forms and functions of written language.
What is phonological awareness?
children's sensitivity to the sound units that make up speech
When do children show an emerging knowledge of the alphabet?
first 3 years of life
During preschool, what will a child notice about letters?
letters in their names, interest in their occuring in the environment on signs and labels and begin to write some letters in which they are familiar
what is own name advantage?
a phenomenon in which a child recognizes the letter in their own names
What are the 4 complementary hypotheses on how preschool children learn letters?
own name advantage, letter name pronunciation effect, letter order hypothesis, consonant order hypothesis
What is letter name pronunciation effect?
alphabet letter for which the name of the letter is in its pronunciation are learned earlier than letter for which this is not the case.
What is letter order hypothesis?
letters occurring earlier in the alphabet string are learned before letters occurring later in the alphabet string
What is consonant order hypothesis?
letters for which corresponding consonantal phonemes are learned early in development are learned earlier than letters for which corresponding consonantal phonemes are learned later.
what achievements make up print awareness?
development of print interest, recognition of print functions, understanding print conventions, understanding of print forms, recognition of print part-to-whole relationships.
What is development of print interest?
young children develop interest in an appreciation for print
What is recognition of print functions?
children understand that print conveys meaning and has a specific function
What is understanding print conventions?
understand rules of reading. (left to right, top to bottom)
What is understanding print forms?
children learn the language that describes specific print units, including words and letters
What is recognition of print part to whole relationship?
relationship among different print units, including how letters combine to form words
phonological awareness goes from a ____ level to a ____ level?
shallow, deep
what do children with shallow level of phonological awareness show?
an implicit and rudimentary sensitivity to large units of sound structure
what can children with shallow level of phonological awareness detect and do?
detect and produce rhymes, combine syllable onsets w/ the remainder of the syllable to produce a word and detect beginning sound similarities among words
what do children with deep level of phonological awareness show?
demonstrate an explicit and analytical knowledge of the smallest phonological segments of speech.
what do children with deep level of phonological awareness detect and do?
count the number of phonemes in words, can segment words into their constituent phonemes, can manipulate the phonological segments within words
What happens after fast mapping?
slow mapping?
what is slow mapping?
gradually refining word representations with time and multiple exposures to the word in varying contexts
What are the 4 stages that E. Dale describes?
non knowledge of a word, emergent knowledge, contextual knowledge, full knowledge
During preschool what kind of mapping occurs with multiple exposures to words?
extended mapping
what is extended mapping?
full and complete understanding of the meaning of the word
preschoolers also use the N3C. T or F
true
What weigh heavily in toddlers overgeneralizations?
perceptual features
preschoolers use animacy of objects for what?
inferring meanings of words
what do preschoolers use animate objects for?
referents for novel proper names
what do preschools use inanimate objects for?
referents for common nouns
What are deictic terms?
words whose use and interpretation depend on the location of a speaker and listener withing a particular setting
what must children do to use deictic terms correctly?
they must be able to adopt the conversational partner's perspective
What types of relational terms are there?
interrogatives, temporal terms, opposites, opposites, locational prepositions, kinship terms
What are relational terms?
additional achievements in content for preschoolers
What are interrogatives?
becoming adept at answering and asking questions
What are temporal terms?
describes order of events, duration of events and concurrence of events.
What are opposites?
opposite pairs
what are locational prepositions?
describe spatial relations
What are kindship terms?
terms that describe kin
What six factors influence the order if which children acquire grammatical and derivational morphemes
frequent occurrence in utterance - final position, syllabicity, single relation between morpheme and meaning, consistency in use, allomorphic variation, clear semantic function
What is frequent occurrence in utterance final position?
children are most sensitive to sounds at ends of utterances
what is syllabicitiy?
children first learn morphemes that constitute their own syllables and later learn morphemes that contain only a single sound
What is a single relation between morpheme and meaning?
children first learn morphemes with only 1 meaning then learn morphemes that express multiple meanings
What is consistency in use?
children learn the names of morphemes that are used constantly more easily than morphemes that vary in their use
What is allomorphic variation?
children learn morphemes that have a consistent pronunciation before they learn morphemes that have allomorphic variation
What is clear semantic function?
Children learn morphemes that have a clear meaning first before they learn ones that have a less clear meaning
What is the most significant area of morpheme development in the preschool period?
verb morphology
preschoolers move to a more complicated form of sentence structure. T or F
True
what is the alphabetic principle?
relationship between letters or combos of letters and sounds.
What are the more complex functions preschoolers start to use discourse for?
interpretive, logical, participatory, and organizing.
What are interpretive functions?
make clear the whole of a person's experience
What are logical functions?
express logical relations between ideas
What are participatory functions?
express wishes, feelings attitudes and judgments
What are organizing functions?
manage discourse
What is a narrative?
child's spoken or written description of a real of fictional even from the past, present or future.
What must a narrative contain?
2 sequential independent clauses.
What are 2 important types of narratives?
personal and fictional
What is a personal narrative?
individual shares factual event
what is a fictional narrative?
individual shares a fictional event
both personal and fictional narratives thread events together in what 2 ways?
causal or temporal
What is a causal sequence?
unfolds following a cause and effect chain of events or provides reason or rationale for some series of events.
What is a temporal sequence?
unfolds with time
in intraindividual differences, preschoolers will exhibit what?
language profiles
What is a language profile?
simultaneous pattern of language in multiple domains
What does a language profile cover and not cover?
covers on language domains and not competencies.
What are literacy profiles?
simultaneous patterns of literacy, including competencies.
What are the effects of SES on interindividual differences?
some will not be able to afford programs for their children and therefore they will be at a disadvantage
will children from lower SES families benefit from being in the same classroom as children from higher SES families? Yes or No
Yes
There are no more gender differences in preschool. T or F
False
What are some measures of semantics?
Total number of words, number of different words and type-token ratio.
What is well-formedness judgment?
child must decide whether a sentence is syntactically acceptable
What is judgment about interpretation?
child must interpret one or more parts of a sentence
What is preschool language scale -4th edition? (PLS-4)
a norm-referenced measure of vocab, grammar, morphology and language reasoning that contains 2 scales.
What are the 2 scales of the PLS-4?
The Auditory comprehension scale and the expressive communication scale
What does the auditory comprehension scale of the PLS-4 measure?
language comprehension ability, including receptive vocab, comprehesion of concepts and grammatical markers and the ability to make comparisons and inferences
What does the expressive communication scale of the PLS-4 measure?
language production abilities, including using expressive vocab, using grammtical markers, segmenting words, completeing analogies and telling story in sequence
What is the test of language development - primary - 3rd ed.? (TOLD-P:3)
9 subset test that measure different oral language components.
What are the 9 subsets of the TOLD-P:3?
picture vocab, relational vocab, oral vocab, grammatic understanding, sentence imitation, grammatic completion word articulation, phonemic analysis, word discrimination
What do picture vocab, relational vocab, oral vocab do?
assess comprehension and meaningful use of spoken word
What do grammatic understanding, sentence imitation, grammatic completion do?
assess differing aspects of children's grammar
What do word articulation, phonemic analysis, word discrimination do?
measure children's ability to pronounce words correctly and to distinguish between words that sound similar
What does the Peabody picture Vocab Test - 3rd edition do? (PPVT-III)
norm referenced measure of receptive vocab
The PPVT-III is a test that is generally used with other tests. T or F
True
How does the PPVT-III work?
there are 4 pictures and examiner asks child to point to one of the pictures.
What does the clinical evailuation of language funamentals-Preschool, 2nd ed. do? (CLEF-preschool-2)
is a norm referenced test of language abilities for children from 3-6
What are the 8 subsets of the CLEF-preschool-2?
sentence structure, word structure, expressive Vocab, concepts and following directions, recalling sentences, basic concepts, word classes-receptive, word classes-total
What do the sentence structure, word structure, expressive Vocab of the CLEF-preschool-2 do?
form a core language score that clinicians can use to obtain a snapshot of children's key language abilities
What is the phonological awareness lireracy screenin-PreK? (PALS-PreK)
screening instrument that early childhood educators can use to identify children's strength and weaknesses in early literacy to plan instruction for the school year.
What are the 6 subsets of the PALS-PreK?
Name writing, alphabet recognition and letter sounds, beginning sound awareness, print and word awareness, rhyme awareness and knowledge of nursery rhymes
What do the subsets of the PALS-PreK do?
measure children's knowledge of phonological awareness and print knowledge
What is the Test of Early Reading Ability -3rd ed do? (TERA-3)
a norm referenced test that measures a child's mastery of early developing reading skills
What are the 3 subsets of the TERA-3?
alphabet knowledge, conventions, meaning
What does alphabet knowledge measure in the TERA-3?
the alphabet and its uses
What does the conventions measure in the TERA-3
knowledge of print conventions
What does the meaning measure in TERA-3?
ability to construct meaning from print
What do the 3 subsets of the TERA-3 do?
combine to form an overall reading quotient
As preschoolers add to the quantity of language, a noticeable shift can be seen in the _______ of words they understand....
quality
What do children weigh more heavily than the perceptual appearance?
the function
What are 2 phonological processes that may persist past the 5th birthday?
liquid gliding, stopping
until around what age does it take for a child to construct a true narrative?
4
What is a true narrative?
A narrative with problem and resolution
For interindividual differences, what 4 literacy-ability clusters are children classified into?
low average (LA), high average (HA), high narrative (HN), low overall (LO)
What 5 domains are tests to classify children into literacy-ability clusters?
semantic, syntax, phonemic awareness, metasemantics and narrative discourse.