This piece will take the form of a 5-6 page critical reflection about your language experiences and how those have interacted with and/or against your culture, identity, and learning. In short, the goal is to describe and examine the role of language and culture in your life using specific examples of oral and written communication. […]
Write a 2-3 page paper in which you summarize the strengths and weaknesses of Piaget’s stages of cognitive development and Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory of development. Describe how cognitive and sociocultural development support language development. Identify the elements of each theory that you think are the strongest and/or the most problematic, and explain why you think […]
How were these accommodations effective ways to support students with developing language ability? Where did you see the affective filter, comprehensible input, background knowledge, culturally responsive teaching, scaffolding, stages of language development, embedded context, etc. ?
1. What is an infant’s speech perception ability and how does it relate to language development? 2. Explain and give a few examples of phonotactic regularities. 3. Explain the difference between perceptual categories and conceptual categories. 4. Why is an infant’s awareness of movement and understanding of the goals underlying action an important precursor for […]
1.How are neuroscience, neuroanatomy, and neurophysiology related to one another? How do they differ? 2.What is functional magnetic resonance imaging and how can it be used to improve our understanding of language functions in the brain? 3.Discuss the four components of the neuron: cell body, axon, presynaptic terminal, and dendrites. How do neurons communicate with […]
Assigned topic is “Behavioral Theory of Language Development” and we need to answer these questions: Describe the role of the language learner. Identify the limitations of this theory. Demonstrate a metaphor for this model of language development. This is relating to speech language acquisition for a speech pathology course.
