Language Acquisition from Slideshare

Found this on slide share, thought it could be quite useful for revision time...

http://www.slideshare.net/cupidlucid/theories-of-language-acquisition1-presentation-710182

My Timeline

1988 - I was born :)
1990 - started nursery
1991 - we moved house
1992 - My little brother Lewis was born
1993 - Started primary school and moved house again
1995 - changed primary schools
1996 - moved house again
1997 - Great Grandad Frank died
1998 - moved house
1999 - Got the lead in the school play :)
1999 - went to Disneyland, Florida
2000 - Moved house AGAIN and started secondary school
2001 - Mum and Dad split up - helped mum read the phone bill that proved dad had been a naughty boy!
2002 - Moved house and started Theatre school alongside normal school - started to rebel in normal school
2003 - Started a part time job in a restaurant, moved up to grammar school, Dad had new partner with 2 children - fell out with him and didn't see him for a few years
2004 - Dad remarried, Mum met Paul and we moved house again
2005 - got my GCSE's and decided to stay on for 6th form
2006 - moved house again
2007 - got my A Levels and started my first proper job at a mortgage brokers as an admin clerk
2008 - Changed jobs to work at Natwest
2009 - First promotion with the bank, and bought my first house with my boyfriend, we also got engaged and bought a dog
2010 - promoted to bank manager, split up with boyfriend - one of the worst year's ever!
2011 - moved back in with mum, still have the dog and made a huge decision to change my life and do what i should have done in 2007 and go get a degree!

Think that just about covers it!

Child Poverty in the UK

I wasn't quite sure what child poverty was, so I asked you tube...

I was shocked to discover that out of 29 European countries, the UK ranked 24th in the number of children that grow up in poverty.

Behaviourist Theory in a nutshell!

So, you will have already seen my videos of Pavlov's experiment and Skinner's experiment...

As far as i understand it this is behaviourist Theory...

John Locke (1632-1704) a philosopher and physician, said that "children were a blank slate at birth and it was the experiences and interactions with people and environment which affected their development" (got this from the book - "Early Childhood Studies, by Johnston and Nohmad-Williams")

So there are a few people that thought they'd test it out with different experiments,.,,

Firstly, Watson and Raynor (1920) taught an 11 month old child called Albert to be afraid of a soft white rabbit by showing it to him and making a loud noise at the same time which frightenend him. So when Albert saw a rabbit in the future he was scared as he associated it with the loud frightening noise. (I suppose this is where phobias come from, some people say that you are scared of certain things because of a traumatic experience that you associate with it)

Anyway, then Pavlov came along in 1920 with his experiment with the dog - see you tube video!

Finally, Skinner did an experiment with rats (see you tube video) here he extended Pavlov's findings to say that when actions are positively rewarded the child/animal is more likely to do it again but if you punish the action they won't continue to do it. Basically - the supernanny theory!

So that was meant to be in a nutshell, but went on a bit!!

Hope that all makes sense!

See you tomorrow...

Skinner's Operant Conditioning

And this is Skinner's Rat experiment, again on Fiona's development module for the behaviourist theory

Classical Conditioning

This is a really dumbed down version of Pavlov's dogs experiment on conditioning. This is the behaviour theory for Fiona's module.

I've been a busy bee tonight...

Have been looking into stuff for Rachel's presentation on the challenges faced by children and families in diverse communities in the UK and found some good stuff on disability. Was thinking of going down the deaf people route for mine, so looked on government websites as a starting point for some info on policies etc.

I've found lots on disability, but thought it might also be good for SEN, those of you that are doing this for Lin's presentation. I'll paste all the links below for you, but what is good that i've found is a blog written by the mother of a deaf daughter which really opens your eyes as to what challenges they face over stupid everyday things.

http://www.education.gov.uk/inthenews/inthenews/a00198359/20-pathfinders-to-test-out-proposals-in-the-special-educational-needs-and-disabilities-green-paper

http://media.education.gov.uk/assets/files/pdf/g/green%20paper%20presentation.pdf

http://www.education.gov.uk/childrenandyoungpeople/sen/a0077704/grant-funded-projects-special-educational-needs-and-disability

http://www.ndcs.org.uk/family_support/sounding_off/index.html

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/DisabledPeople/RightsAndObligations/DisabilityRights/DG_4001068

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/DisabledPeople/RightsAndObligations/DG_4019061

http://www.direct.gov.uk/prod_consum_dg/groups/dg_digitalassets/@dg/@en/@money/documents/digitalasset/dg_195544.pdf

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/MoneyTaxAndBenefits/BenefitsTaxCreditsAndOtherSupport/Disabledpeople/DG_10011816

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/MoneyTaxAndBenefits/BenefitsTaxCreditsAndOtherSupport/Disabledpeople/DG_10011925

Hope this helps!!

Week One

Today was Warwick Day! I'm quite tired after walking around such a maaaaasive place! It's a really strange place to get your head around, I kind of want to be there full time to appreciate all of it and discover everywhere there is to go and fully embrace student life. I think we'll get there though over the next 4 years!

Some useful stuff i've found...

The best articles i'v found are in the Sociology Review - in the library - some good stuff for Rachel's module.

Been tryin to find stuff on you tube but there's a lot of american stuff on there, but open uni podcasts are good!

Would love to have more interesting links for you but i haven't found any! Will hopefully find some and post them soon!!