How Children Acquire and Produce Language (BBC, 2001) Documentaire: Language acquisition. Vygotsky Quotes. Excerpts from Mind in Society Chapter 1: Tool and Symbol in Child Development Speech plays an essential role in the organization of higher psychological functions. ~ Lev Vygotsky, Mind in Society Speech and action are part of one and the same complex psychological function, directed toward the solution of the problem at hand. ~ Lev Vygotsky, Mind in Society Sometimes speech becomes of such vital importance that, if not permitted to use it, young children cannot accomplish the given task. ~ Lev Vygotsky, Mind in Society With the help of speech children, unlike apes, acquire the capacity to be both the subjects and objects of their own behavior. ~ Lev Vygotsky, Mind in Society The specifically human capacity for language enables children to provide for auxiliary tools in the solution of difficult tasks, to overcome impulsive action, to plan a solution to a problem prior to its execution, and to master their own behavior. ~ Lev Vygotsky, Mind in Society Chapter 3: Mastery of Memory and Thinking.
Syntax and morphology. Child Language Acquisition | Revision. Sound-letter relationships. Sound–letter correspondences are the relationships between sounds (or phonemes) and letters (or graphemes). This starting point highlights the connections between the sounds in words and the letters that are used to represent those sounds. Included are two other related concepts: the alphabetic principle and letter recognition. Knowledge of sound–letter relationships means knowing, for example, that the /t/ sound is represented by the letter t.
It also means knowing that the sound /s/ can be represented by more than one letter, for example, s as in soft and c as in city. Many adults who are non-readers have trouble with identifying these relationships between sounds and letters. An awareness of the alphabetic principle means knowing that speech can be turned into print, that print can be turned into speech, and that letters are used to represent sounds in the language.1 Letter recognition is the ability to recognise and name the letters of the alphabet. Background information Case study.