Changing the way you learn

Question	Answer
Sociodramatic Play	Involves social and dramatic skills with explicit rules and reflects real-world behaviour.
Features of Child-Directed Speech	Repetition, Higher Pitch, Child's name rather than Pronouns, Present Tense, One-word Utterances, Fewer Verbs / Modifiers Concrete Nouns Expansions and Recasts Yes / No Questioning Exaggerated Pauses giving turn-taking cues
Expansion	The development of a child's utterance into a longer, more meaningful form.
Recast	The commenting on, extending an rephrasing of a child's utterance.
Language Acquisition Support System	refers to the child's interaction with the adults around them and how this interaction supports language development
Scaffolding	The process of transferring a skill from adult to child and then withdrawing support once the skill has been mastered.

Play and Language Acquisition

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