Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Some defining features of language.
- How language is different between children and adults.
- Some basic differences between their native language and other languages.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Summarize complex ideas related to language and its acquisition into simpler, but still accurate, terms.
- Evaluate the ways in which language influences our thinking, considering the different theories on how language is acquired.
- Evaluate the importance of physical or cognitive limitations on language acquisition, including hearing loss and learning a second language later in life.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- All language is structured.
- There are specific ways that language develops.
- There are differences among languages, both spoken and expressed.
- There are differences between written and spoken/expressed language.
- There are ways in which physical limitations can affect language development and expression.
- There are specific uses of language in different contexts.
Vocabulary
- language
- morpheme
- phoneme
- grammar
- semantics
- syntax
- babbling
- one-word stage
- two-word stage
- telegraphic speech
- linguistic determinism
- nerve deafness
- conduction deafness
