An Interactive Approach to Enhancing Early Word Learning: From Research to Best Practice

✍ Scribed by Lakshmi Gogate

• Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 151
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A wealth of research on child language has unearthed many novel strategies that parents and interventionists can utilise to enhance word learning prior to infants producing their first words. These developmentally-appropriate strategies are published in scientific journals, however, rendering them largely inaccessible to parents and non-research professionals. This volume presents research findings and practices in an accessible, user-friendly manner. A sizeable percentage of children entering first grade each year show vocabulary delays. However, best practices for enhancing vocabulary focus on children after they talk or exhibit delays. By addressing what it takes to learn words, this volume informs best practices for building vocabulary from the ground up to prevent delays. It enumerates multiple strategies that primary caregivers naturally exhibit during interaction, and strategies isolated from experimental studies. The book also highlights the word learning of bilingual versus monolingual children, and addresses cultural variations.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
List of Figures
Introduction: Pressing Issues in Early Word Learning
1. Infants’ First Words
2. Prosody Guides Word Learning
3. Space and Body Matter
4. Timing Perception Guides Word Learning
5. Gesture and Touch Guide Word Learning
6. Joint Attention and Word Learning
7. Word Learning by Bilinguals and Monolinguals: Similarities and Differences in the Early Years
8. Conclusions, Questions and Future Directions
Bibliography
Index