Tuesday, 14 June 2016

a2 coursework ideas

Child development

John Holt - How Children Learn    (1967)
Foreword: children have a style of learning that fits their conditions and which they use naturally until we train them out of it


Holt.JH.1967.how children learn.1st.USA.pitman publishing corporation


Power

Dale Spencer - Men Made Language   (1980)
Thorne & Henley 1975: the correct way of speaking for women - page37










HOW TEENAGERS LANGUAGE CHANGE AS THEY GROW UP?
-accent and dialect
                                                                                            relate to music?
                                                                                            the use of swear words?
                                                                                               -black vs white - racist?
  • dialect levelling?
  • Milroy:Belfast
  • Bernstein's codes
Bee and Boyd - Lifespan development
-21/2 years average vocab = 600         - Pinker 1994
-5-6 years average = 15000


-3 years acquired basic tools needed to form sentences and make conversation    - Bloom 1991

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  1. Unknown16 June 2016 at 08:31

    You could test the vocabulary expansion by providing the same stimulus picture (a very detailed one) to different age participants and ask then to describe what is happening - you might be able to apply comments about restricted and elaborated code too. Could be interesting - what do you think?

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