Language contact

The relationship between thought and language holds a diverse range of theories. Much of the background literature suggests that the connection between the two begins as early as infancy, with some research into the field of anthropology. Three key figures in its origins are Vygotsky, Piaget and Sapir-Whorf. Vygotsky held a cultural, or ontogenetic, view on the origins of thought and language. In his view, language and thought held two separate roots that developed on a parallel which had…

Growing I was a part of a Caucasian family whose mom’s family came from England, while my dad’s family came from the East Coast. Both of my parents spoke English as their primary language so I naturally spoke English as well. I began to talk at an early age, and my parents say that I loved to communicate with people I knew. I remember when I read my first word at a coffee cart in Denver, and since then I have enjoyed reading books of all sizes. I don’t remember my parents reading novels when…

gone to a home daycare in her neighborhood. She is receiving speech/language services and occupational services at the local public school. A speech evaluation was recommended by Tara Noel’s doctor at a wellness visit because he was concerned with her lack of common/typical vocabulary. She was recommended to the Birth to Three program. She has a language delay with receptive language, and it is impacting her expressive language, and she has milestone delays in her motor skill. She has trouble…

Working with different children that range from different ages is something that I have been able to do in the past well taking other child development classes but this semester well I was taking ECH 320 I was able to get the knowledge of what it might be working with an infant all the way to a child that is eight years old. Over the course of the last eight weeks I have been able to observe what it might be to work with a toddler well reading a book to them or even a chance to conduct a four…

Learning literacy standards, which are the following: MELS.LIT-2.1- Uses language to communicate MELS.LIT-3.1- Listens for different purposes The first content component of the literacy standards is centered on expressive language. The assessment examined the students’ facility in using their native language to communicate. Furthermore, the second content component of the literacy standards is focused on listening and receptive language. The assessment examined the students’ ability to listen…

Preposition is a word or a group of words which brings out the correct relationship between a noun/pronoun or between a verb and a noun/pronoun or an adjective and a noun/pronoun. Prepositions are important structural words. They have been called, ‘hooking words’, since they are used to hook nouns, pronouns and word-groups on to preceding words and word-groups including sentences. The purpose of the hooking is to mark the relation of the noun, pronoun or word-group with another word or…

In You are What You Speak, Guy Deutscher (2010), the author, explained how the languages influence people’s aspect, thoughts, and a society (p.215). In other words, people can make assumptions about a society from its language. Thus, people can make assumptions about the mysterious tribe found by anthropologists by examining its linguistic characteristics. For example, linguistic anthropologists can name the mysterious tribe “Utoceaiso” from their assumptions about the tribe. The first part of…

rigor of hours of practice which over time becomes a uniquely somatic knowledge. One that is visible in the way someone carries their body, it can be just as distinctive as an accent. Naming another story about they are and what they know, in the language of the…

Language plays an important role in a child’s intellectual, emotional and social development. Language can be both seen and heard. Language is a guide to social reality (Sapir, 1949). For example, body language, sign language and the social convention about how to combine words, express and connect ideas to interact with other people. All language including written, visual and spoken developed from cultural and social contexts and understood in people's social and cultural background (Green,…

Besides, Chang and Roebl (2011) point out that L2 listening difficulties come from text, listener, speaker and task. Additionaly, they added two more factors ¨input chanel and surroundings¨ and ¨relevance¨. In the same line, Yang (2011) divides listening comprehension problems into five categories: text, listener, listening process, speaker, and task. On the other hand, according to Hamouda (2013) EFL learners have crucial problems in listening comprehension because universities pay…