Discussion Board
Discussion Board
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The purpose of these discussion articles is to bring course material closer to the real world. Discussion articles will focus on debates and issues related to child language development. For each article, students carefully read the article to understand the questions under debate and the evidence on both sides. Also, while they are reading, consider how their current understanding of language development provides evidence for and against the argument.
Points are given for both completing the questions independently (3 points per question, 15 total) and responding to posts of their peers (1 point per response up to 5 points).
Baby Signing
Baby Signing
Student's Comments on Peer's Work on Board and Instructor's feedback
Student's Comments on Peer's Work on Board and Instructor's feedback
Observation Project
Observation Project
Designed by Dr. Davidson
Objective
Objective
The goal of the observation projects is for you to apply your knowledge about language development to children in real life. For this second observation project, you will be watching a single video of two children engaging in play. Your objective is to compare and contrast the language of the boy (Jack) and girl (Maddie).
Instructions
Instructions
Step 1:
Step 1:
Watch the video and write down any observations you have about the two children’s language and communication development.
Step 2:
Step 2:
Review the “rough” transcriptions for each child below and note any similarities differences, or interesting aspects from each child’s transcript.
Note: The term “rough transcriptions” here is used to highlight that this is an orthographic transcription and NOT a transcription for a detailed language sample analysis.
Step 3:
Step 3:
Consider your answers to the following guided observations:......
Step 4:
Step 4:
Using what you did in Steps 1-3, write a short essay (roughly 4-5 paragraphs) comparing and contrasting the language development for each child you observed in this video. The first paragraph should contextualize what you observed in this video and any general comments you have about the children as well as their language development. The second and third (and possibly fourth) paragraphs should compare and contrast the specific similarities and differences in these children’s language development. Finally, the fourth (or fifth) paragraph should summarize your observations and support your claim for whether these children are in different language development stages or not. Don’t forget to talk about development—not just what each child does and does not do in the video.
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Note. from the highest point value listed for each letter grade above to determine the final grade if:
No statement about the context is provided (-1 point)
The following elements from the guided observation are missing or incorrect/incomplete:
-.5 points:
No discussion of or incorrect interpretation of the children's errors for "I breathing cold weathers" and "It's supposed to wheel."
No discussion of or incorrect interpretation for what the children are trying to say for "I breathing cold weathers" and "It's supposed to wheel."
-1 point: No or incomplete consideration of any of the following elements: negation comparison, auxiliary comparison, or interrogative/questions comparison.
The essay does not include the author's own observations (-1.5 point; own observations = not covered in the guided observation; refer to your observations from Steps 1 and 2 of this project).
There is no statement or the statement is unclear about whether the children have different or the same language abilities (-1 point)
Course terminology is not used (-1 point) or course terminology is inconsistently or incorrectly used (-.5 points).
Spelling/grammatical errors (0.25 points each).
Instructor's Comment on Student's Response
Instructor's Comment on Student's Response
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