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Speaking Skills

Aspects of Auditory language assessed

Week 6

7 10 February 2012

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Auditory expressive language

Inability to express in spoken and written due

to difficulty with language processing centers

of the brain.

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Articulation

(Process of articulating speech)

tongue, velum, and lips, hard palate, teeth, alveolar

ridge, and nasal cavity

Bilabial: made with two lips

(pie, buy, my)

Labiodental: lower tip andUpper front teeth (fie, vie).

Dental: tongue tip or blade and upper front teeth (thigh,

thy). (interdental: the tip of the tongue protrudes

between the upper and the lower front teeth).

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Articulation

Alveolar: tongue tip or blade and the alveolarridge (tie, die, nigh, sigh, zeal, lie).

Retroflex: tongue tip and back of the alveolarridge (rye, row, ray).

Palato-Alveolar (post-alveolar): tongue blade andthe back of the alveolar ridge (shy, she, show).

Palatal: front of the tongue and hard palate (you).Palatal sounds are sometimes classified as

coronal. Velar: back of the tongue and the soft palate

(hack, hag, hang).

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Vocabulary

A person's vocabulary is the set ofwords

within a language that are familiar to that

person. A vocabulary usually develops with

age, and serves as a useful and fundamental

tool for communication and acquiring

knowledge. Acquiring an extensive vocabulary

is one of the largest challenges in learning asecond language.

(source: wikipedia)

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"I wenttothejungle andI sawa tiger,

a bear, a crocodile, a deer, an

elephant, ...

*change the setting

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Focus on

vocabulary

memory

phonics

articulation

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During infancy, a child builds a vocabulary by instinct, withzero effort.

Infants imitate words that they hear and then associatethose words with objects and actions.

Infant listens to vocabulary then speak the words heard.

reading and writing vocabularies are attained throughquestions and education.

A good student learns about twice as many words. anEnglish-speaking child will have learned about 2,5005,000words.

An average student learns some 3,000 words per year, orapproximately eight words per day.

People usually then expand their vocabularies by engagingin activities such as reading, playing word games, and byparticipating in vocabulary-related programs.

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The importance ofa vocabulary

Assist expressions and communication.

Vocabulary is linked to reading

comprehension. Linguistic vocabulary is synonymous with

thinking vocabulary.

A person may be judged by others based onhis or her vocabulary.

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Syntax

the study of the rules that govern the ways in

which words combine to form phrases,

clauses, and sentences. Syntax is one of the

major components ofgrammar.

The arrangement of words in a sentence.

Adjective:syntactic.

Ie: "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously."

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morphemes

A morpheme is the smallest meaningful unit inthe grammar of a language.

Current approaches to morphology conceive of

morphemes as rules involving the linguisticcontext, rather than as isolated pieces oflinguistic matter. They acknowledge that meaningmay be directly linked to suprasegmentalphonological units, such as tone or stress.

the meaning of a morpheme with a given formmay vary, depending on its immediateenvironment.

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What are your strategies for

vocabulary power?

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Tutorial task

8F

ebruary 2012 Prepare and present a Powerpoint

presentation on intervention strategies for

communication problems.