Language Acquisition Crossword
Across
- 2. The process of transferring a skill from adult to child and then withdrawing support once the skill has been mastered
- 5. The last question word children acquire (to do with time)
- 6. A feature of Halliday’s functions of speech used when learning about the environment
- 7. A feature of a child’s language where the word used to label something is ‘stretched’ to include things that aren’t normally part of that word’s meaning
- 10. The first word class children use
- 11. Name of the theorists who believed that children acquire language through imitation and reinforcement
- 12. Surname of theorist who identified 3 stages of negative formations
Down
- 1. The name of Piaget’s language acquisition theory
- 2. A common phonological error
- 3. Name of the theorists who believed that humans have an inbuilt capacity to acquire language
- 4. An invented word that has a consistent meaning
- 8. A feature of Dore’s language function used when a child is asking for something to be done for them
- 9. A feature of Child Directed Speech used by parents to expand a child’s vocabulary
- 12. Surname of the theorist who conducted the ‘wug’ test