Module 10: Language Development (4/9-4/15)

Contents

Module Objectives

In this module you will:

  1. Evaluate theories of language acquisition
  2. Brainstorm how infant teachers can support infant language development & communication skills
  3. Analyze the development of a 1-year-old baby

Activity #1: Infant Language Development

Watch these 3 videos:

Promoting Language and Literacy: Infant and Toddler Care (2003, Learning Seed) from the BMCC library video database Kanopy (here are directions and a video on how to access the video).  Complete this handout as you watch the video.

Linguistic Genius of Babies TED Talk: Patricia Kuhl (2011); complete this handout as you watch the video

Theories of Language Development (2013, Khan Academy); complete this handout as you watch the video

Read Gillespie (2019) and Kovach & Da Ros-Voseles (2011), complete this handout as you read

 

Gillespie (2019)

 

Kovach & Da Ros-Voseles (2011)

Review the developmental milestones for a 1-year-old baby

Watch this video of a 1-year-old-baby (in the red shirt)

Answer the questions below, creating a unique response that includes evidence from each video and each of the articles  in the your response:

    1. How are the following connected to a baby learning language:
      1. relationship-based practices (the 3 R’s & attachment)
      2. individualized routines
      3. a family’s culture
    2. Which theory of language development do you believe? Why?  Based on that theory, explain how the babies learn the 4 cornerstones of language.
    3. Thinking about your response to questions # 1 and #2, what can  infant teachers do to support baby’s language development? List specific practices that no one has mentioned yet!
    4. What cognitive, social/emotional, physical/ motor, and language/ communication developmental milestones does the 1-year-old baby (in red short) in the video demonstrate? How?
    5. Specifically, how is this baby’s cognitive, social/emotional, physical/motor, and language/communication development different from the 9-month-old baby we observed in module 9?

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Activity #2: Self-Reflection

At the end of the semester you will develop a Self-Assessment of what you have learned which will help to determine your grade for ECE 209. In preparation for your Self-Assessment, answer the questions below; you will answer these questions at the end of each module so you have a record of what you have learned over the semester. You can answer the questions here on Open Lab or create a journal on Blackboard (which would be private).

  • What did you learn in the modules for ECE 209-Lecture and Seminar?
    • Information/ knowledge
    • Skills
    • Insights (connections you made or “ah-ha’s” you had about the material)
  • How will the material from these module better prepare you to work with infants?

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