Language Development Essay

of Mia, the focal child, and Betty Yu, the teacher. The videos were recorded nine months apart and shows the incredible language development that occurs with Mia. Both videos show Betty and Mia making pudding. However, the dynamics of their relationship and conversation change in the second video. By this time, Mia has evolved from stage 2 to stage 4 of communicative development. In video one, Mia is two and a half years old. The setting of the video is her family home. Mia’s mother and…

1. In the situation where the child had to use four- and five-word sentences within a few minutes of observing her because she had a very complex language development. Maci was at her softball game and came out after she had fallen on her arm. That is why she said the sentence, “I hurt my arm.” Her mom responded with that she will be okay and then proceeded to kiss her arm. She continued to ask Maci more questions that she kept complaining about the pain. 2. Honestly going into this session I…

How much language awareness can account for L2 development? Is it necessary? Can it hinder fluency? The controversy involving explicit and implicit learning boosts many studies in SLA field. Some researches (e.g. Krashen, 1981; Paradis, 1994) do not see much contribution of explicit grammar teaching in L2 development, whereas others (R. Ellis, 1994) argue that explicit knowledge accelerates form-meaning mapping and helps to attain certain types of knowledge, such as academic or professional…

Language evolution is viewed as a controversial topic across many disciplines. Psychologists, anthropologists, neuroscientists and other members of academic community attempt to provide theories, which would explain such a complex phenomenon. The difficulty in doing so arises from the fact that there is very little evidence that would help to identify the most accurate theory (Pinker, 2003). One of the leading experts in the field of linguistics, Noam Chomsky, suggests that when exploring such a…

A few years ago I was asked by my department chair to teach an English Language Development (ELD) class. As I had only been teaching for a year, I was unfamiliar with the full requirements of the class and nervous to take on what I felt was a BIG responsibility. Once I accepted our dean of curriculum asked me to be the ELD advisor. I took two days to decide that with my family background, my grandfather picked fruit for a living and my mom picked and packed growing up, I could make the students…

Her father had ordered the family never to speak to her, leading to the gross underdevelopment of her Broca’s and Werinicke’s area—the language centers of the pre-frontal cortex. The lack of stimulation in these speech centers caused irreparable damage. By the age of thirteen, Genie had no real capacity to learn language. This phenomena of severely decreased ability to learn something as someone ages is called a “critical period.” Something is expected to develop within this time and if it does…

A language is a powerful tool for expressing thoughts, ideas, and feelings. Language also serves as one of the primary contextual clues in determining where any one person is from in the world or region. Moreover, language also serves as the driving force for culture development within societies. The concept that language directly affects culture development is the prominent hypothesis within the anthropological community. The primary language taught to any person during their early growth and…

Children develop language in many different settings and in many different ways. Children’s interactions with their surrounding environment plays a big part in learning language. Language for children and for adults is a way of communicating as well as a way to understand themselves and their world. This essay will look at how children aged 0-2 years develop language. More specifically this essay will focus on how language can be learnt and developed through different types of interactions, the…

The article I chose covers the topic of language and literacy development for deaf and hard of hearing children. The article is entitled “Language and Literacy Development of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children: Successes and Challenges”(p.15). In the article the authors discuss how children develop language and literacy when they are deaf/hard of hearing. They also discuss how children who have hearing loss struggle with language development. The exception to this rule is deaf children with deaf…

consider when examining a language development theory? Write out each question AND provide a description of the major points of all three. The first question is “What do infants bring to the task of language learning?”. This question looks at the longstanding question of nature versus nurture or otherwise known as nativist versus empiricist debate. Some theorists believe that babies are born with the capacity to acquire langue, while others argue that babies learn language through their…