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Author Bochner, Sandra.

Title Child language development : learning to talk / Sandra Bochner and Jane Jones
Edition 2nd ed
Published London : Whurr Publishers, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 241 pages) : illustrations
Contents Background to the language programme -- Explanations for language development in children -- Acquiring language: the developmental sequence -- Contexts for learning: routine events and play -- Talking with children -- Designing and implementing a language programme -- Organizing a language programme -- Preliminary skills: programme level 1 -- Preverbal skills: programme level 2 -- First words: programme level 3 -- Early sentences and extending meaning: programme levels 4 and 5 -- Communicative intentions -- Issues in implementation -- Phonological development and intelligibility -- Augmentative and alternative forms of communication as stepping stones to speech -- Working with children whose home language is other than English -- Working with children in groups -- Working with families -- Language sampling -- Summary assessment sheets -- Observation record forms -- List of first words -- Articulation development and Australian norms -- Resources for use in a parent-based program
Summary This publication is concerned with the early stages of language acquisition and is designed for use by early childhood teachers, nursery nurses, special education teachers and others working with children experiencing difficulties in learning to talk. Procedures are described that can be used to assess a child' s current skills and plan activities to increase communicative competence. The programme described is based on a developmental sequence that moves the early skills of joint attention, turn-taking and appropriate play to the more complex skills of asking and answering questions. Other is
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-189) and index
Notes English
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Subject Language acquisition.
Language and languages.
Preschool children.
Children.
Language
Child, Preschool
Child
Language Development
children (people by age group)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Psycholinguistics.
Preschool children
Language and languages
Children
Language acquisition
Taalverwerving.
Kindertaal.
Taalonderwijs.
Taalontwikkeling.
Tweede taal.
Psicolingüística.
Transtornos da linguagem.
Crianças.
Aquisição da linguagem.
Form Electronic book
Author Jones, Jane
ISBN 9780470699126
0470699124
9780470698549
0470698543
1282271474
9781282271470
9786612271472
6612271477