I am fond of reading.

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3. to have chance of + gerund

4. to insist on + gerund

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Chapter 6 cognitive development in infancy

This chapter shows that developmentalists question the scientific basis of Doman's approach and recommend providing a rich and emotionally supportive atmosphere for learning by infants. A controversial issue in development is whether infants construct their knowledge of the world or whether they experience it directly.

But before reading try to do the following:

a) answer and discuss the following questions:

1. What is cognitive development concern with?

2. Can you describe some approaches to infant cognitive development?

3. Do you agree with the idea that supports the hypothesis that language is the result of biological evolution.? Indicate how behaviorists explain language acquisition.

b) explain the term “cognitive development“ ['kכּgnətıv dı'veləpmənt] (когнитивное развитие) in English.

c) find synonyms and antonyms to:

habituation, initial, challenge.

d) guess the meaning of the following words and word combinations without using the dictionary:

Institute, accelerate, basis, atmosphere, sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete, operational, formal, progress, organize, sensations, physical, symbols, reactions, internalization, schemes, contact, product, extensive, information, psychologists, series, competence, symbolic, imitative, conceptual, presentations, stimulus, mobile, objects, imitate, tests, oriented, verbal, orientation, global, biological, components, critical, deficits, grammar, imitation, instructions, characteristic, telegraphic, communicate, minimally, social, focus, physical.

e) do the following phonetic exercises:

Ex.1. Transcribe and pronounce the words given below.

Endeavor, meant, scientific, approach, recommend, issue, knowledge, movement, circular, curiosity, scheme, technique.

Ex.2. Read the following clusters with assimilation.

And thereby, suggests that, and thinking, objects that, oriented toward, exposed to, factors that, states that, used to, pretend to, understand toddler.

Ex.3. Pronounce the words from the text containing the sound [w] correctly.

What, whether, with, world, between, weeks, toward, well, words, which, question.

Ex.4. Pronounce the words from the text containing the sound [r].

Accelerate, illustrate, rich, directly, different, described, primary secondary, characterized, curiosity, direct, product, differentiated, recently, memory, greater, repeated, interactions, oriented, orientation, predict, predict, critical grammar, reinforcement, behavioral, environmental, factors, motherese, growth, receptive, reach, instructions, characteristic, utterances, telegraphic, precise, interact, seriously, encourage, pretend.

Ex.5. Pronounce the words from the text containing the nasal sound [ŋ].

Learning, providing, during, understanding, processing, thinking, demonstrating, young, life-long, shaping, reacting, echoing, expanding, recasting, language, labeling, babbling, single.

Ex.6. Pronounce the words from the text containing the voiced sound [ð].

Thereby, whether, though, their, they, this, with, the, that, them, than, other, these, although, there, mothers, motherese.

Ex.7. Pronounce the words from the text containing the voiceless sound [Ө].

Theory, both, through, growth, months, think, hypothesis.

Ex.8. Pronounce the words from the text containing the sound [v].

Endeavor, developmentalists, supportive, controversial, cognitive, qualitatively, movement, novelty, events, even, envisioned, conventional, level, imitative, move, verbal, cognitive, nativist, view, behavior, receptive, vocabulary, impoverished.

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