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This 3 page paper looks at the study of Tomasello and Farrar, (1986), which indicated the language was learnt more effectively when conversation with a young child was targeted on the objects where there attention was already focused. This paper looks at the findings and considers what supporting evidence exists. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
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File: TS14_TElangdv.rtf
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life are laid. In the study by Tomasello and Farrar, (1986), it was noted that the way in which the mother will interact with the child and the attention
of the child will indicate different level of successful language learning. Where a mother was able to talk to the child regarding the object of their attention, and made more,
smaller utterances, there was likely to be a higher positive response. Conversely where the mother sought to divert the attention of the child the were less successful. The conclusion
was that where the visual attention of a child was focused there was also likely to be a higher positive impact of the verbal and language skills being learnt from
he encounter. This was measured using the words learnt by the children with attention assessed on the visual attention of the child, as this was easiest to measure. However, Tomasello
and Farrar, (1986), note that the results they gained do agree with former studies where the attentive child is seen as more motivated to learn new words and also
the way that redirecting may have a negative impact overall (Tomasello and Farrar, 1986). The interaction with mothers and the rate at which children learn language has been established in
other later studies. Tamis-Lamonda et al, (2001), found that it was the way in which the mother would interact and respond to a child at both nine and thirteen months
would be a stronger indicator of the holders likely lingual progress than measuring the ,milestones that the child had already attained. There were the measurements of which responses could be
seen as ,milestone, indeed the ability of the moth to talk to the child in respect of where there attention was focused was one of these variables (Tamis-Lamonda et al,
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