Reading your own and other students work

TASK 5.5 Reading your own and other students work 

Below is an extract from a student essay. Read the essay, and then think about it in relation to the questions that we used for analytic reading.  

How do children s semantic mistakes throw light on the process of language acquisition  

Researchers have iooked, primariiy, at three main areas as evidence for the way in which ianguage is acquired  

Four main theoretical perspectives can be identified as being useful but partial theories of child language acquisition. These are semantic feature hypothesis prototype theory functional core concept theory and lexical contrast theory. All four perspectives rely on empirical research of children s lexical and semantic errors and attempt to identify the processes through which children attach meaning to lexical representation. 

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