ECED 2106 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Sociolinguistics, Participant Observation, Lake Trout

• School: Temple University
• Department: Early Childhood Education
• Course: ECED 2106
• Professor: Lisa Dunkle

Document Summary

Chapter 3: language development among children of linguistic diversity. Language diversity: the variation and number of nouns and modifiers used by the parents. Feedback tone: the positi(cid:448)e feed(cid:271)a(cid:272)k gi(cid:448)e(cid:374) to (cid:272)hild(cid:396)e(cid:374)"s pa(cid:396)ti(cid:272)ipatio(cid:374) i(cid:374) a(cid:374) interaction. Symbolic emphasis: the emphasis placed on focusing on names and associated relations of the concepts and the recall of those symbols. Guidance style: parental interaction that uses asking rather than demanding in eliciting specific behavior from child. Dialects are specialized variations of a language. Five aspects of language: phonological, semantic, syntactic, morphemic and pragmatic. A pidgin is a language developed in response to the interaction of two groups of people who did not initially share a language. The pidgin may develop into a creole language. When a pidgin language has been used across two generations, so that the children of the i(cid:374)itial speake(cid:396)s of the pidgi(cid:374) lea(cid:396)(cid:374) o(cid:396) a(cid:272)(cid:395)ui(cid:396)e the (cid:374)e(cid:449) la(cid:374)guage as thei(cid:396) (cid:862)(cid:373)othe(cid:396) to(cid:374)gue. (cid:863: standard american english.