1. When considering the theories of oral language development, which do you feel best explains your own viewpoint and why?
The Social Interactionist Viewpoint explains my viewpoint of language development. Lev Vygotsky built on Piaget’s Constructionist theories that oral language is predetermined and without cognition language development is limited. Piaget developed the idea of stages of language development, although he recognized that not all children reach the final Abstract Reasoning (Formal Operations) stage. Vygotsky modified Piaget’s theory with the idea that language can be improved and changed with direct instruction and, as a result, language development isn’t static.
Vygotsky believed that language develops from social and linguistic …show more content…
He noted that when a child asks for a book to be read over and over, the child is continually learning about how to use language and eventually to read a book. Later, the child picks up the book and attempts to tell the “story” from pictures or from the sounds they heard their parents say. Eventually, the third stage of Internalization begins with guided practice and explicit teaching of reading, and eventually (s)he can perform the task without assistance. This final stage is known as Independent Practice. Lev Vygotsky realized that although language is innate it is continually improving as long as there is direct expert …show more content…
What are three ways you could assess students’ oral language development in your classroom. Be sure and provide information about all three ways rather than just listing what they are. Also, be sure to include an assessment of mean length of utterance (MLU).
A) Teacher Rating of Oral Language and Literacy (TROLL) is a five to ten minute observation, performed several times per year, in order to collect information about how a child is using language when they interact with peers, pretend play and discuss topics that interest the child. The checklist that is provided requests information on how a child’s reading and writing is developing. The information that is collected can be used to affect curriculum decisions, improve parent child conferences and whether or not outside referrals should occur.
B) The Get It, Got It, Go! Individual Growth and Development Indicators is a collection of several standardized, individually administered measures of early literacy and language development. Children view a variety of pictures and are required to provide the names of the objects. A free Internet database exists where teachers can input the data from the assessments and generate classroom reports. All of the information to provide this assessment is provided on the
The Social Interactionist Viewpoint explains my viewpoint of language development. Lev Vygotsky built on Piaget’s Constructionist theories that oral language is predetermined and without cognition language development is limited. Piaget developed the idea of stages of language development, although he recognized that not all children reach the final Abstract Reasoning (Formal Operations) stage. Vygotsky modified Piaget’s theory with the idea that language can be improved and changed with direct instruction and, as a result, language development isn’t static.
Vygotsky believed that language develops from social and linguistic …show more content…
He noted that when a child asks for a book to be read over and over, the child is continually learning about how to use language and eventually to read a book. Later, the child picks up the book and attempts to tell the “story” from pictures or from the sounds they heard their parents say. Eventually, the third stage of Internalization begins with guided practice and explicit teaching of reading, and eventually (s)he can perform the task without assistance. This final stage is known as Independent Practice. Lev Vygotsky realized that although language is innate it is continually improving as long as there is direct expert …show more content…
What are three ways you could assess students’ oral language development in your classroom. Be sure and provide information about all three ways rather than just listing what they are. Also, be sure to include an assessment of mean length of utterance (MLU).
A) Teacher Rating of Oral Language and Literacy (TROLL) is a five to ten minute observation, performed several times per year, in order to collect information about how a child is using language when they interact with peers, pretend play and discuss topics that interest the child. The checklist that is provided requests information on how a child’s reading and writing is developing. The information that is collected can be used to affect curriculum decisions, improve parent child conferences and whether or not outside referrals should occur.
B) The Get It, Got It, Go! Individual Growth and Development Indicators is a collection of several standardized, individually administered measures of early literacy and language development. Children view a variety of pictures and are required to provide the names of the objects. A free Internet database exists where teachers can input the data from the assessments and generate classroom reports. All of the information to provide this assessment is provided on the