Language & Literary Development LNG222

By mattiemouse

  • BIRTH

    After full term pregnancy child is born. Child in use for timeline is myself, Mattie Baca.
  • Period: to

    Lifespan, birth to current

  • 3 months

    Child will respond vocally to her partner.
    (Owens, R., Et. All, 20115)

  • 8 months

    The child began gesturing.
    (Owens, R., Et. All, 20115)

  • 12 months

    The child's first words are spoken. According to Owens, R, Et. All, the words will fill intentions previously signaled by gestures (2015).
    At this age, "reading development will begin within the social interactions of the child and caregiver." (Owens, R., Et. All, 20115)

  • 18 months

    The child "begins combining words on the basis of the word-order rule" (Owens, R., Et. All, 20115).

  • 2 years

    The child has begun to add bound morphemes. According to Owens, R. et. all, "the average length or mean length of utterance (MLU) is 1.6-2.2 morphemes"(2015)

  • 3 years

    The child has a more adult like sentence structure and the MLU is 3.0-3.3 morphemes. (Owens, R., Et. All, 20115)
    According to Owens, et. all, most children at this age, in the U.S., are beginning to develop print awareness (2015).

  • 4 years

    The child began to change her style of talking to fit her conversational partner(s). Her MLU is now 3.6-4.7 morphemes. (Owens, R., Et. All, 20115)
    At this age children are beginning to notice phonological similarities and syllable structure in words they hear.(Owens, R., Et. All, 20115)

  • 5 years

    By this age, 90% of the language form is learned.(Owens, R., Et. All, 20115)
    According to Owens, R., et. all, kindergarten age, or roughly age 5, children are beginning to decode the alphabet system,and broadening their experience with print (2015).

  • 6 years

    The child has begun to learn visual mode of communication with writing and reading.(Owens, R., Et. All, 20115).
    By the first grade, or rougly age 6, the child is being introduced to reading instruction and the sound-letter correspondence ('phonics')(Owens, R., Et. All, 20115).

  • 8 years

    By the 3rd grade the child has shifted to the 'reading to learn' phase, form the 'learning to read' phase(Owens, R., Et. All, 20115).

  • START OF ADOLESCENCE

    During the adolescent stage of life, the child is now able to competently participate in conversations and narrative telling; knows multiple meanings of words; and figurative language. She is able to use a gender style or genderlect when talking (Owens, R., Et. All, 20115).

  • END OF ADOLESCENCE

    End of adolescent phase of life.