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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
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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
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prompting
def
3 types
- whatever will get a child to respond to something
- Fill ins: this is a ___
- elicited talk "Say X"
- questions
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caregiver responding behaviors
- respond for truthfulness not grammar
- reformulation or recast
- expansion
- extension
- imitation
- turnabouts
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reformulation or recast
- to check understanding of childs speech
- adult repeats utterance and fills in issing pieces
- children then repeat the reformulated
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expansion
preserves word order and adds more grammatical meat
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extension
extends semantically the child's utterance
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what percent of imitated speech will be reimitated by the child
>20%
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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
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differences in how caregivers influence learning due to
- culture
- SES/class
- gender
- number of kids in family
- perceived abilities of children
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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
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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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