330 4.2 Ch 6

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do caregivers directly teach their children language
- no, theu do things that will facilitate language learning
- model (motherese)
- prompt
- respond in certain ways to child's talk
motherese : pragmatic characteristics
- may depend on child's style
- either referential namers or conversationalists
- does not use fillers like um that serve to grab the conversational turn
prompting
def
3 types
- whatever will get a child to respond to something
- Fill ins: this is a ___
- elicited talk "Say X"
- questions
caregiver responding behaviors
- respond for truthfulness not grammar
- reformulation or recast
- expansion
- extension
- imitation
- turnabouts
reformulation or recast
- to check understanding of childs speech
- adult repeats utterance and fills in issing pieces
- children then repeat the reformulated
expansion

preserves word order and adds more grammatical meat
extension

extends semantically the child's utterance
what percent of imitated speech will be reimitated by the child

>20%
turnabouts
- ways the caregiver gets the child to take his turn at talk
- it serves to answer a question or ask one
- one type of contingency or quest for clarification
differences in how caregivers influence learning due to
- culture
- SES/class
- gender
- number of kids in family
- perceived abilities of children
middle class american culture
- children held in high regard
- children are talked 'with' not necessarily 'at'
- value verbal epression early and often of our children
other input that may play a role in langauge learning
- being around people talking
- TV
- beaing read to (very important)
- overall quality of home life
- well fed; nourished
- loved; protected

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330 4.2 Ch 6

Description

Adult Teaching Strategies

Updated

2012-02-16T16:36:55Z

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