Chapter 11 socioemotional development in middle and late childhood

This chapter says that in make-believe situations that entail conflict, socioeconomic inequality, and issues of civil-political rights, children recognize injustice and produce sensible solutions requiring equitable sharing and prohibiting aggression.

But before reading try to do the following:

a) answer and discuss the following questions:

1. Do you think middle and late children can understand concepts such as conflict, socioeconomic inequality, and civil rights?

2. Describe issues that arise between parents and elementary and secondary school children.

3. List the ways in which schools socialize children, and describe how going to school changes children's lives.

b) explain the term “label” ['leıb(ə)l] (навешивать ярлык, обзывать, прикреплять ярлык, навешивать бирку, относить к к.-л. категории) in English.

c) find synonyms and antonyms to:

make-believe, inequality, reject.

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

Situations, socioeconomic, socializing, discipline, autonomy, central, control, attribution, result, specific, stimulation, ego, aspects, basis, adaptability, social characteristics, egocentric; global, specificity, popularity, emotional, altruism, nonempathic, empathic, principle.

e) do the following phonetic exercises:

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

Entail, civil, injustice, equitable, prohibit.

Ex.2. Read the following clusters with assimilation.

Situations that; related to; that develops; fourth stage; understand the.

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

With, way, without, awareness, away, toward, whereas, self-worth.

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

Rights, children, recognize, produce, equitable, parents, remain, confront, school-related, reason, rather, unilateral, increasingly, remarriage, different, interaction, increases, related, relations, respond, scripts, friendships, comparison, similarity, graduate, from, requires, proceeds, desirable, integrated, curriculum, traits, differences, representation, self-appraisal, recent trend, approval, inferiority, interested, encouragement, merit.

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

Requiring, sharing, prohibiting, during, socializing, changing, fighting, eating, dressing, seeking, monitoring, reinforcing, listening, being, showing, having, processing, misinterpreting, developing, going, schooling, planning, defining, taking, feelings, self-understanding, describing, evaluating, improving, identifying, providing, encouraging, promoting coping, according, making, doing, sharing.

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

That, these, the, although, rather than, another, other's, their, another's, they, themselves.

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

Both, enthusiasm, thoughts, self-worth, fourth, empathic.

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

Make-believe, civil-political, deprivation, privileges, motives, divorce, behavior, conversations, motive, aggressively, availability, develop, negative, positive, individual, viewed, perspective, view, cognitive, evaluative, affective, move, approval, achievement, versus, developmental, benevolence.

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