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Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Had to miss class!
I had to miss class last night n(2-4) because I had to be in TN for a funeral. Could someone please let me know what I missed? Also, did everyone notice we have our first text next week?!~
I just copied this from where I wrote it on Beth's post. I hope it will help you too. If you have any questions just let me know.
Last night we spent time reviewing phonemes, morphemes, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. She gave us the handouts that she didn't have the week before. After that we watched videos of young children and discussed the difference between cognition (we said it was thinking, processing, using the mind) and language. We discussed the beliefs in the book, rather language or cognition comes first or if they work independently of each other.
We talked about distancing (which is knowing something without it being right in front of you.) The example we had was in a video of a young girl pretending to be a vetrinarian. She was pretending there were bugs in the stuffed dogs ear (she knew dogs could have bugs in their ears) but there weren't really bugs in the dog's ears.
Then we talked about object permanence which is the whole idea behind peek-a-boo. It's when a child finally realizes that something (such as his/her mother) still exist and will come back even when the child is not directly looking at that object.
Then we discussed the four models of language acquisition. There are really good notes for that on blackboard.
At the end of class we were working in groups of definitions to explain how speech works. We were supposed to be making a definition that would explain the process of speech to parents whose child maybe had problems with speech.
That's really all I can remember from last night. I'm sure there was more that I've forgotten but I hope what I gave you at least helps a little bit. Renee
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I just copied this from where I wrote it on Beth's post. I hope it will help you too. If you have any questions just let me know.
Last night we spent time reviewing phonemes, morphemes, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. She gave us the handouts that she didn't have the week before. After that we watched videos of young children and discussed the difference between cognition (we said it was thinking, processing, using the mind) and language. We discussed the beliefs in the book, rather language or cognition comes first or if they work independently of each other.
We talked about distancing (which is knowing something without it being right in front of you.) The example we had was in a video of a young girl pretending to be a vetrinarian. She was pretending there were bugs in the stuffed dogs ear (she knew dogs could have bugs in their ears) but there weren't really bugs in the dog's ears.
Then we talked about object permanence which is the whole idea behind peek-a-boo. It's when a child finally realizes that something (such as his/her mother) still exist and will come back even when the child is not directly looking at that object.
Then we discussed the four models of language acquisition. There are really good notes for that on blackboard.
At the end of class we were working in groups of definitions to explain how speech works. We were supposed to be making a definition that would explain the process of speech to parents whose child maybe had problems with speech.
That's really all I can remember from last night. I'm sure there was more that I've forgotten but I hope what I gave you at least helps a little bit.
Renee
I had to miss the last class as well and your post really helped me figure out what i needed to go over. Thanks
Thank you so much Renee!! That was so helpful!
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