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| The teacher understands the importance of oral language, knows the developmental processes of oral language and provides with varied opportunities to develop listening and speaking skills. |
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| learning strategy that young children use to replicate someone's behaviors, actions, and phrases. |
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| study of the sound system of a language. |
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| study of the structure of words and word formations. |
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| smallest representation of meaning. |
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| vocabulary of a language. |
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| way that meaning is conveyed in a language through the use of its vocabulary. |
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| implied meaning of words and ideas; therefore, speakers must have knowledge of the culture to understand and expressions implied meaning. |
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| literal meaning of words or ideas. |
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| how context can affect the interpretation of communication. |
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| Babbling or pre-language Stage 0-6 months |
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| Infants can identify the voices of parents and family members, and they are able to follow certain commands. They also begin understanding the intonation patterns used to convey anger or excitement and the patterns used to ask questions. |
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| 11-19 months Holophrastic One word stage |
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| Word concepts-and conceptualize complete ideas. |
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| Pivot-words that can be used to accomplish multiple functions, no, up, all, more, and gone. Open-words that are generally used to refer to one concept. Ex: Milk, doggy, juice, pants, and shoe. |
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