Understanding Child Language Development: From Crying to Speech
Understanding Child Language Development
What is Psycholinguistics?
Psycholinguistics is the study of language and speech as a window into the nature and structure of the human mind.
What is Developmental Psycholinguistics?
Developmental psycholinguistics examines how speech emerges over time and how children construct the complex structures of their mother tongue.
Crying: An Automatic, Iconic, and Symbolic Response
Crying is an automatic response to noxious stimuli, triggered by the autonomic nervous
Read MoreEffective Language Teaching Methods: A Comprehensive Analysis
Community Language Learning
Community Language Learning is a classic example of an affectively based method, based on Charles Curran’s (1972) Counseling-Learning model of education. Learners in a classroom are regarded not as a class but as a group in need of therapy and counseling. Success depends on the translation expertise of the counselor. However, the counselor-teacher could become too non-directive. Supportive but assertive direction from the counselor could strengthen the method.
- Theory of
Grammar: Understanding and Teaching Effectively
What is Grammar?
- Language users’ subconscious internal system
- Linguists’ attempt to codify or describe that system
- Sounds of language – Phonology
- Structure and form of words – Morphology
- Arrangement of words into larger units – Syntax
- Meanings of language – Semantics
- Functions of language and its use in context – Pragmatics
“Grammar is the business of taking a language to pieces, to see how it works.” – David Crystal
Grammar is the system of a language. People sometimes describe grammar as the “rules” of
Read MoreIntonation in English: Statements, Questions, and Tonality
C2 Statements: Default Tone and Finality
C2 statements typically have a default tone that conveys confidence and finality, indicating a complete thought.
Statements: Non-Fall Intonation
Statements with a non-fall intonation (\/) have not reached the end of the message. These incomplete statements may imply something without explicitly stating it. They can also imply contrast, express reservation, indicate a statement is true under certain conditions, be tactful or polite, sound tentative when correcting
Read MoreLanguage, Speech, and Linguistic Variations
Language
Language is the power that human beings have to communicate through symbols that are shared and that can express thought.
The language is a structured system of verbal and combination rules common to a community of speakers.
Speech
Speech is the actual realization on the part of speakers of a language at a time and a particular communicative situation.
Standard Language
The standard language is the set of rules and practices accepted by speakers of a language as exemplary forms of speech.
Varieties
Read MorePublic Speaking Essentials: Key Concepts and Techniques
Public Speaking Key Concepts
- Source or Sender: Creates a message.
- Shared Meaning: The mutual understanding of a message between the speaker and the audience.
- Message Sent: The content of the communication process: thoughts and ideas put into meaningful expression.
- Body of a Speech: The point at which you go into full detail about each of your main points.
- Speaking Outline: Covers the main points and aids the speaker’s memory on certain topics.
- Verbal Communication: The use of sounds and language to relay