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