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Episode 31: Child Language Development & Implications for Teachers

Episode 31: Child Language Development & Implications for Teachers

Update: 2025-08-28
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Show Notes: Episode 31 (season 4) show notes: Child language development & implications for teachers


Conversations about Language Teaching Episode 7 was about Conversation Analysis: 

YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zny0LLUh3TM

Audio-only podcast episode https://www.buzzsprout.com/admin/2325378/episodes/15229325-episode-7-learning-about-language-classroom-interaction-through-conversation-analysis 


Reed mentioned this presentation by Lourdes Ortega: 

Ortega, L. (2017). The bi/multilingual turn in SLA: How far have we (not) come, and why. In 36th Second Language Research Forum, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.


Reed referenced Ninio’s research on child syntax (ex, word order), such as the following: 

Ninio, A. (2014). Learning a generative syntax from transparent syntactic atoms in the linguistic input. Journal of Child Language, 41(6), 1249-1275. https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/4230B7158CA10B4F20454430F3A9B6BE/S0305000913000470a.pdf/learning-a-generative-syntax-from-transparent-syntactic-atoms-in-the-linguistic-input.pdf

Ninio, A. (2011). Syntactic development, its input and output. Oxford University Press. https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=tJ2k_KeoRhcC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=Ninio+child+syntax&ots=ycNoteZRsf&sig=EvZ0KYIbqXytHtPE6-P41jFUJE0#v=onepage&q=Ninio%20child%20syntax&f=false 



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Episode 31: Child Language Development & Implications for Teachers

Episode 31: Child Language Development & Implications for Teachers

Diane Neubauer, PhD & Reed Riggs, PhD