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1. Reviewing Essential Linguistics by David Freeman and Yvonne Freeman Presented Kathryn Jesser and Abigail Bloem

3. First and Second Language Acquisition

4. The technical aspects of linguistics and how they work in the classroom

6. About Language

9. Morphological recognition

10. Syntactic understanding

11. Semantic understanding

12. P ragmatic understanding

13. We have to know what these things are in order to teach them.

16. Animals would also speak if this were the case

17. Children do not imitate adults

18. Learning language is too speedy to be done this way!

21. Limited amount of evidence for hypotheses

22. Limited feedback (mostly from caretakers)

28. Acquiring Language: making meaning is more important than how it is said.

29. The Views of the teacher greatly affect how the student learns

32. Whole Word Learning split educators around the 1920's

33. Today we have an approach that balances the best of both!

36. Do oddity tasks

37. Blend or split syllables

38. Perform phonemic segmentation

40. Acquisition: phonology is acquired by using the language to communicate

42. Analytic:analyzing known words and sounds to make new words

43. Analogy based: use word families to make new words

44. Spelling: segment words into phonemes and write the words with the sounds

45. Embedded: letter-sound correspondences while reading

46. Onset-rime: connect sounds of new words and rhymes to the letters that spell them

48. Some words are spelled the same but sound different and have different meanings

50. A Note on the Book

54. Cognates

55. Text Analysis

57. Merriam-Webster Online. Merriam-Webster Inc. 2009. < http://Merriam-webster.com >

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