CTEL Module 1-Language Development
CTEL Mod 1 Vocabulary
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- two-word stage
- a child of approximately two years of age begins to produce utterances such as "car go"
- interactionist
- one of the most salient and significant modes of discourse is conversation
- CALP
- Congnitive Academic Language Proficiency
- CUP
- Common Underlying Proficiency
- constructivist
- it is based on the premise that we all construct our own perspective of the world, based on individual experience and schema, focuses on preparing the learner to problem solve
- acquisitionist model
- children acquire language, constructing their own understanding or rules without receiving explicit instructions
- SUP
- Separate Underlying Proficiency
- metacognition
- cognitive operations of being aware learning, using, and self-monitoring of learning strategies
- CALLA
- this approach incorporates explicit teaching of learning strategies for purposes of academic communication in content areas
- telegraphic stage
- a stage of stringing more than two words together...utterances sound like a western union message
- BICS
- Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills
- holophrastic stage
- one word is equivalent to one sentence
- social interactionist
- the learner discovers the meaning potential of language by participating in communication
- babbling stage
- from age six months to about one year,, the child imitates the sounds of human languages
- cognitivist
- knowledge is viewed as symbolic mental constructions in the minds of individuals, and learning becomes the process of committing these symbolic representations to memory where they may be processed
- overgeneralization
- the process of regularizing exception forms, as in "swimmed" and "taked"
- universal hypothesis
- much linguistic knowledge is universal across languages
- interlanguage hypothesis
- refers to the separateness of a second language learner's system, that has a structurally intermediate status between the native and target language
- social-cultural model
- students from a non-mainstream culture are acquiring a second culture/language which may contrast between the patterns acquired at home