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Language Forms and the Integrated Language Core

A Model of the Communication Process how children acquire language

Components of language systems
 * Behavioral factors
 * Biological factors
 * Cognitive factors
 * Social factors

TYPES OF LANGUAGE PROBLEMS Elkonin Card for speech Sounds ways to promote early literacy
 * Phonology: phonemes (sound units)
 * Morphology: morphemes (meaning units)
 * Syntax: grammar (sentence structure)
 * Semantics: word meaning (vocabulary)
 * Pragmatics: social side of language (intonation)
 * Delayed speech
 * Phonological awareness
 * Temporal acoustical processing
 * Rapid automatized naming (RAN)
 * Word-finding
 * Language Disorders (receptive or expressive disorders)
 * English language learners (limited English proficiency)

Teaching Oral Language in the General Education Classroom
 * Engage children in oral language activities.
 * Surround children in a literacy environment.
 * Introduce concepts about print.
 * Use word and sound games.
 * Build alphabet knowledge.
 * Alert children to letter–sound correspondence.
 * Encourage early writing.
 * Point out beginning reading vocabulary.
 * Opportunities for talking, explaining, giving point of view
 * Discussion groups
 * Students explain, demonstrate how to do something
 * Students talk about themselves and their interests
 * Teach vocabulary
 * Role-playing and acting out stories