This document outlines brief, bullet-point-style notes on the Child Language Acquisition unit in the CIE A Levels syllabus.
It follows the 2021-2023 syllabus (9093) and includes the topics:
- Features of spoken language (definitions of “discourse” and “utterance”, discourse features, prosodic and paralinguistic features)
- Conversational interaction (features of unscripted language)
- Transcribing speech (symbols used in transcriptions)
- Stages of early language development (before birth, babbling stage, holophrastic stage, telegraphic stage and post-telegraphic stage)
- Language development from 5-8 years (restricted and elaborated codes)
- Functions of children’s language (Halliday’s functions of language, influence of TV on language development)
- Theories of language acquisition (Skinner, LAD, LASS, Piaget, Vygotsky)
This Word document can be used as a revision tool for students.
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