1. What skills must a child possess in order to use decontextualized language? Explain your answer. Decontexualized language is where a child uses language to talk about people, places or things that are not presently occurring or in front of them. For example, Harry talks to his mother on the telephone about going to the park with his dad earlier that day. To acquire this milestone, a child would need to have mastered the ability to use contextualized language and have knowledge of syntax and vocabulary. Contextualized language is the discussion of things that are presently in front of them. For example, Harry shows his dad the baby passing in the stroller while they were walking in the park. Further, a child needs to have an understanding of sentence structures as well as knowledge of words to use language efficiently. A child essentially needs to be able to explain an event in a way that the listener has an understanding of what he or she is talking about since there is nothing around to provide hints. …show more content…
Explain the connection between oral language skills and early literacy abilities? Oral language skills are an important part of early literacy abilities. From infancy, children begin to develop oral language skills which allow them to understand and produce language prior to their ability to read and write. Having acquired these skills, language is able to develop. A child needs to know the meaning of words in order to fully understand what is being said when reading or