ELAR Competency 001: Oral Language

ELAR: Competency 001

Oral Language

The teacher understands the importance of oral language, knows the developmental processes of oral language, and provides the students with opportunities to develop listening and speaking skills.

Language Acquisition

Three Main Components

1. innate abilities and mechanism of the learner

2. exposure to speech of caretakers and parents

3. interaction of children in their immediate environment

Language Acquisition Device

(LAD) Noam Chomsky

Humans posses an "internal grammar"--set of linguistic principles, that are activated for all languages.

Multiple Choice

The study of the sound system of a language is known as....

• Morphology

• Phonology

• Semantics

• Syntax