What does it mean to "understand language as a sociocultural practice? Kid watchers learn about children by observing, they learn from observing children’s sociocultural knowledge. Sociocultural knowledge come from experience and what children have seen, and people they have encountered. By watching children, kid watchers can learn where kids have been, what they know about different places, and who they have encountered. Children develop language in many ways, these ways include talk, using the language, and learning through the language. As children learn they learn through experience, with each new experience they are learning about people, places, objects, and events. Through these experiences, they learn language. In your response, …show more content…
Each child’s family will use language differently. Each family is different, some children will be surrounded with books, while others are surrounded by a different language. “As children experience these daily language and literacy practices, they develop cultural knowledge, including understandings about the literacies that are associated with that knowledge”(Goodman, Owoki, 17). Children will develop a range of language and literacy knowledge and this knowledge will be based on the social practices they are accustomed to. As teachers, we need to encourage our student to explore and share their diversity in the classroom. Varied evaluation practices: Given the fact that children differ in their language use, it is important to “tailor” the evaluation for each individual. Each child will have their own strength. Teachers will tailor their evaluation on evaluation data they collect (this was mentioned in chapter 1. Teachers need to use a social-contextual approach, this approach is based on evaluations that are based on understanding, valuing, and different activities which make the child use language and literacy. As teachers will need to personalize each thing we do including evaluations and there are multiple ways to tailor the