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. Through Language

7. About Language

8. Language

9. Freeman and Freeman: “Teachers with linguistic knowledge can help their students learn language.” (xi)

11. Morphological recognition

12. Syntactic understanding

13. Semantic understanding

14. P ragmatic understanding We have to know what these things are in order to teach them.

17. Animals would also speak if this were the case

18. Children do not imitate adults

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

22. Limited amount of evidence for hypotheses

23. Limited feedback (mostly from caretakers)

25. Generative Grammar:the rules of the dominant language that make up any given sentence. These must be learned.

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

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

32. Phonology

35. Do oddity tasks

36. Blend or split syllables

37. Perform phonemic segmentation

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

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

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

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

44. Embedded: letter-sound correspondences while reading

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

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

49. A Note on the Book

50. Orthography

51. Morphology

55. Cognates

56. Text Analysis

57. Syntax

59. Missing information

60. Charts and Text

61. Easy to understand and Strong Purpose

62. Conclusion

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

65. Halliday, M. A. K. “Three Aspects of Children's Lanugage Developement: Learning Language, Learning Through Language and Learning About Language.” In Oral and Written Development Research: Impact on Schools. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.