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What are the components of a language rich environment?

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The physical environment, activities and experiences, staff roles and responsibilities, valuing the views of the child, and parental involvement.

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How could a rich language environment be promoted?

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·Reading aloud every day.

·Exposing children to language frequently.

·Playing word-based games.

·Exposing children to different types of texts.

·Engaging in and talking about subjects that interest children.

·Telling stories to children.

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How does learning to listen and talk help children succeed in school and in life?

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Learning to listen and talk helps children succeed in school and in life because it allows them to learn, respond, explore curiosities, gain perspective, make friends, and communicate effectively.

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Receptive language is

Expressive language is

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Receptive language – the ability to listen and comprehend what is being said.

Expressive language – the ability to use vocabulary and form sentences to express meaning.

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Explains Chomsky's Language Acquisition Device (LAD) and his key concepts.

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Chomsky argued children have an innate ability to learn language.
Universal grammar: all human languages share a deep structure rooted in a set of grammatical rules and categories.

Humans have a 'critical period' for language acquisition

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Piaget's main concepts of language acquisition.

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Each child goes through stages of development in the same order (but not all at the same rate), and child development is determined by learning and developmental progress and interaction with the environment.

• Schemas: Mental frameworks for organising information, growing in number and complexity as children develop, enabling deeper world understanding.

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Piaget's stages of development

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Sensorimotor

Preoperational

concrete operational

Formal operational

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Bruner and his theory on language development.

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LASS- Language Acquisition Support System

Discovery learning

Scaffolding

Modes of representation

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Vygotsky's theory of language development

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Emphasised the role of social interaction

ZPD

Scaffolding

Language is not only beneficial for communicating, but for thinking.

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Skinner and language development

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Children learn words and grammar mainly by by copying the speech they hear and receiving positive feedback for correct use.

Language is a result of external stimuli.