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"Language and Literacy Development: English Learners with Communication Disorders, From Theory to Application, Second Edition brings you the most useful, up-to-date information on best practices for English learners (ELs) with communication disorders from a variety of backgrounds-how to conduct assessment, intervention, and progress monitoring. The first edition of this text gave a comprehensive overview of the theory and practice of serving ELs with communication disorders, and the second edition is expanded to show the nuts and bolts of how to meet ELs' needs and how professionals can support their success at school"--

Communication Disorders --- Language Development

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Der sprachen- und bildungsstufenübergreifend angelegte Band stellt Heterogenität als Merkmal pädagogischer Settings in den Fokus und geht der zentralen Frage nach, wie der mehrsprachigen Lebenswirklichkeit in einem an der Bildungssprache Deutsch orientierten System entsprochen werden kann. Die Beiträge spiegeln die vielfältigen Ausgangslagen, Bedarfe und Perspektiven wider, die den deutschsprachigen Raum prägen. Dabei werden Ausbaupotenziale von Sprachförderung ebenso untersucht wie Faktoren und Facetten einer entwicklungsadäquaten Förderung von Deutsch als Bildungssprache, Gelingensbedingungen für Sprachaneignung im Kontext herkunftsbedingter Mehrsprachigkeit und integrative Ansätze zum gesteuerten (Mehr-)Sprachenerwerb. Durch die Bündelung dieser inhaltlich und methodisch breiten Themenfelder zu den vier Schwerpunkten Bildungssprache Deutsch, herkunftsbedingte Mehrsprachigkeit, Fremdsprachenerwerb und Sprachförderkompetenzen können Befunde und Handlungsempfehlungen für Bereiche zusammengeführt werden, die für angewandte Linguist/-innen, Sprachlehrforscher/-innen, Sprachendidaktiker/-innen, Lehrkräftebildner/-innen und Pädagog/-innen ebenso relevant sind wie für Entscheidungsträger/-innen in mit Sprache befassten Institutionen. This volume spans various languages and education levels, focusing on heterogeneity as an immanent characteristic of pedagogical settings. Its examines the potential of language development, the factors and facets of the developmentally appropriate promotion of German as a language of education, the conditions for successful language acquisition in the context of multilingualism, and integrative approaches toward controlled language acquisition.

Foreign Language Acquisition. --- Language Development Skills. --- Language of Education (German). --- Multilingualism. --- linguistics --- Bilingualism & multilingualism --- Language acquisition

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Autism --- Language disorders --- Autistic Disorder. --- Language Development Disorders. --- Psychiatric Disorders, Individual

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The digital age is changing our children’s lives and childhood dramatically. New technologies transform the way people interact with each other, the way stories are shared and distributed, and the way reality is presented and perceived. Parents experience that toddlers can handle tablets and apps with a level of sophistication the children’s grandparents can only envy. The question of how the ecology of the child affects the acquisition of competencies and skills has been approached from different angles in different disciplines. In linguistics, psychology and neuroscience, the central question addressed concerns the specific role of exposure to language. Two influential types of theory have been proposed. On one view the capacity to learn language is hard-wired in the human brain: linguistic input is merely a trigger for language to develop. On an alternative view, language acquisition depends on the linguistic environment of the child, and specifically on language input provided through child-adult communication and interaction. The latter view further specifies that factors in situated interaction are crucial for language learning to take place. In the fields of information technology, artificial intelligence and robotics a current theme is to create robots that develop, as children do, and to establish how embodiment and interaction support language learning in these machines. In the field of human-machine interaction, research is investigating whether using a physical robot, rather than a virtual agent or a computer-based video, has a positive effect on language development. The Research Topic will address the following issues: - What are the methodological challenges faced by research on language acquisition in the digital age? - How should traditional theories and models of language acquisition be revised to account for the multimodal and multichannel nature of language learning in the digital age? - How should existing and future technologies be developed and transformed so as to be most beneficial for child language learning and cognition? - Can new technologies be tailored to support child growth, and most importantly, can they be designed in order to enhance specifically vulnerable children’s language learning environment and opportunities? - What kind of learning mechanisms are involved? - How can artificial intelligence and robotics technologies, as robot tutors, support language development? These questions and issues can only be addressed by means of an interdisciplinary approach that aims at developing new methods of data collection and analysis in cross-sectional and longitudinal perspectives. We welcome contributions addressing these questions from an interdisciplinary perspective both theoretically and empirically.

digital environments --- language development --- robotics --- learning mechanisms --- situated and embodied cognition

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The workshop Production-Comprehension Asymmetries in Child Language held in Osnabrück in 2009 is the starting point for this book. The workshopdeveloped fromthe observation that children's production skills appear to precede their comprehension skills in a number of phenomena, e.g. pronouns or negation. The volume provides cross-linguistic evidence for such asymmetric development and investigates grammatical and methodical explanations of the observed asymmetries.

Children --- Language acquisition. --- Acquisition of language --- Developmental linguistics --- Developmental psycholinguistics --- Language and languages --- Language development in children --- Psycholinguistics, Developmental --- Interpersonal communication in children --- Psycholinguistics --- Language. --- Acquisition --- Vocabulary --- Language acquisition --- Language --- Child Language Development. --- Language Acquisition.