Year Seven and Eight-- Writing book reviews

Here's a site that will take you through the process. It's a little simplistic, but that doesn't mean it isn't helpful:

http://teacher.scholastic.com/wrItewIt/bookrev/index.htm

This is all done online!

U6 Language Acquisition Web Resources Master List

Sorry for the delay in getting all this up... hopefully this will prove to be useful, giving you at least a couple of hours worth of good revision time.

I've 'uploaded' your websites directly on to this e-mail, so:

• There may be some repeats
• I can't formally take responsibility for the contents of all the websites
• some links have been copied from paper sources-- the odd character may be wrong, and the links not entirely successful!

Here we go!

http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Py104/pinker.langacq.html

A biiiiiiiiiiiig paper by Steven Pinker, with lots on the biological/evolutionary aspects of language development. This will take some time to read...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wug_Test

This is the wikipedia entry for Jean Berko's 'wugs' research from the 50's.

http://maxpages.com/thena/ladiscussion

Big site on various language acquisition theories. Just don't click on the daily prize pop-up.

http://www.feralchildren.com/en/critical.php

Site discussing so-called 'feral children' with reference to the 'critical period' theory.

http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/ling001.html

A little article on caregiver speech.

http://www.healthline.com/galecontent/language-acquisition-device-lad

A good article from an innatist perspective.

http://www.massey.ac.nz/~alock/hbook/kidslang.htm

An abstract with some relevance to how children learn to read.

Steven Pinker:

www.percepp.demon.co.uk/pinker.htm

www.en.wkikpedia.org/wiki/Steven_Pinker

http://library.thinkquest.org/C004367/la3.shtml

Brown:

http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/PY104/pinker.langacq.html

Dore:

http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/pubs/jeilms/vol14/pham.htm

Lenneberg:

http://en.wkwipedia.org/wiki/Second_Language

http://en.citisendium.org/wiki/Critical_Period_Hypothesis

Piaget:

www.learningandteaching.info/learning/piaget.htm

http://chd.gmu.edu/immersion/knowledgebase/theorists/constructivism/Piaget.htm

Halliday:

http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/3.1/reviews/eiler/nostal.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Halliday

Piaget,Chomsky, and Vygotsky:

www.literacytrust.org.uk/talktoyourbaby/theories.html

Language Acqusition Overview (brief):

www.northallertoncoll.org.uk/english/elangacquisition.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_acquisition

Also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILR_scale = Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) scale is a set of descriptions of abilities to communicate in a language

http://www.answers.com/topic/language-acquisition Scroll down to find a bit on . Language Acquisition.

http://www.universalteacher.org.uk/lang/acquisition.htm

http://www.teachit.co.uk/attachments/6033.pdf - a great little test…even has the answers.

http://home.cogeco.ca/~monicafitz/stages.htm also does some other pages which are good…

How babies learn to talk: www.weetalk.net/learn.htm

Speaking parentese: www.talaris.org/spotlight_parentese.htm

How children learn to read: www.bbc.co.uk/schools/parents/work/primary/literacy/reading_learn.shtml

How children learn to read: www.readingrockets.org/articles/386

How children learn to write: www.bbc.co.uk/schools/parents/work/primary/literacy/writing_learn.shtml

Learning to write in schools:
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/parents/work/primary/literacy/writing_taught.shtml

Theorists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_acquisition

Best of luck on your exams!

Mr H