EDUC 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Heritage Language, Joint Attention, Gender Identity
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Week 5 - language development, language diversity & immigrant education and culture. A form of language characterized by short sentences with simple constructions and delivered in high-pitched, more prosodic, and exaggerated tones. A model that explains the school achievement problems of ethnic minority students by assuming that their culture is inadequate and does not prepare them to succeed in school. Skills and knowledge, usually developed in the pre-school years, that are the foundation for the development of reading and writing. Children and youth who were not born in canada but immigrated here with their first generation parents, typically before adolescence. Heritage language the language spoken in the students home or by members of the family. Occurs when a child and caregiver, or teacher, attend to the same object or event at the same time. To apply a rule of syntax or grammar to situations where the rules does not apply.