Assignment Task
Describe and discuss children’s oral language development using relevant theoretical perspectives and references to support your statements and discussion.
Introduction
Introduce the topic.
Identify the key terms you that will address in the essay.
Include a thesis statement that outlines the way you will respond to the question you are required to describe and discuss for this essay.
Body of the essay
The body of the essay will consist of a series of paragraphs through which you will describe the process of language development and discuss the influence of nature and nurture.
Each paragraph should begin with a topic sentence that introduces the main idea or theme of that paragraph. Typically, you would then support this topic sentence with research-based evidence.
Carefully consider how many issues you are going to cover, and how these issues are related to each other and answer the essay question.
Make sure you write in the third person only, and that you develop a detailed explanation across the body of the essay with well-reasoned points.
Try and keep to one topic per paragraph and keep in mind the word count.
Conclusion
Summarise the information provided in the essay.
Make one final statement about the roles of nature and nurture in language development.
While you will have personal views on this topic, this assignment requires you to define and explain from an informed perspective. This means that your work should be supported by evidence that you have found from scholarly sources, a relevant curriculum, and other relevant sources. Such evidence should help you to construct and validate your descriptions and discussion points.
As stated earlier, your essay should include at least 5 references and it must be properly referenced with in-text citations and a reference list using the APA style. Note that the reference list will not be included in the word count.
Throughout your teaching journey, you will be required to use your relevant National and/or State or Territory Curriculum. To help you build capability in this area, and to help further prepare you for placements, here at Swinburne Online we allow you to choose whether you would like to use the relevant National and/or State or Territory Curriculum in your assignments. For further information specific to your assignments for this specific unit, please seek advice from your eLAs and/or your Unit Coordinator.
