The intentionality model and language acquisition : engagement, effort, and the essential tension in development
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The intentionality model and language acquisition : engagement, effort, and the essential tension in development
（Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, v. 66,
Blackwell, 2001
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-89)
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Description
The Intentionality Model builds on the child's engagement in a world of persons and objects, the effort that learning language requires, and the essential tension between engagement and effort that propels language acquisition. According to this perspective, children learn language in acts of expression and interpretation; they work at acquiring language; all aspects of a child's development contribute to this process.
Provides results of a longitudinal study which examined language acquisition in the second year of life in the context of developments in cognition, affect, and social connectedness
Results of lag sequential analyses are reported to show how different behaviors--words, sentences, emotional expressions, conversational interactions, and construction thematic relations between objects in play--converged, both in the stream of children's actions in everyday events, in real time, an in developmental time between the emergence of words at about 13 months and the transition to simple sentences at about 2 years of age
The conclusions show that performance counts for explaining language acquisition; language is not acquired independently but in relation to other behaviors; acquiring language is not easy and requires the work of behavioral coordination
Table of Contents
I. Introduction. II. The Development of Children with Disabilities and the Adaptation of their Parents: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Evidence.
III. The Early Intervention Collaborative Study: Study Design and Methodology.
IV. Results: Predictors of Functioning and Change in Children's Development and Parent Well-being.
V. Discussion.
VI. Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice.
References.
Acknowledgments.
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