5 Interaction Patterns

(CDS) Child Directed Speech: the specificlanguage that adults use with young children that is distinctive and serves to enhance language development.
1. Speech utterances:
  1. 1. Short and Well formed
  2. 2. Have fewer false starts than adult to adult speech.
  3. 5. Redundant or repetitive in part or in whole.
  4. 6. Have a slower rate or tempo.
  5. 8. Have discourse features that encourage children to participate and to clarify the child's responses.
  6. 3. Not syntactically complex.
  7. 7. More closely tied to immediate context.
  8. 4. Have a high pitch, and annotation is more exaggerated
Verbal Mapping: interaction pattern in which an adult verbally describes the object or action in a level of detail appropriate to the developmental level of the child.
1. Shared reference and eye contact are important with new experiences and "in the now" learning experiences .
Questioning: adults ask children different questions to see what they know, what they understand (comprehension), and what the adult doesn't know
1. Questioning is employed by intonation at the end of the sentence, facial expressions, and gestures that encourage a response.
Linguistic Scaffolding: refers to the supportive manner in which adults or older children interact with young children in a dialogue.
1. Adults assist children with building a conversation.
2. Expansion/Recasting: an interaction pattern used to "fill-out" what a child says; modeling of more complex language.
Mediation: an adult focuses on simplifying the learning stimulus or task to facilitate the language interaction and comprehension by a child.

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