1. Language Acquisition English as a First Language

2. Stages or Phases Native English Speakers – Holophrastic speech – – 12 and 20 months (Bates, 1976, Bates, Benigni, Bretherton, Camaioni, & Volterra, 1977, Clarke & Clarke, 1977).

3. Stages or Phases Native English acquisition – Sequential, – First lexical morpheme – ing - (Brown, 1973). – 2-3 word sentences – 18 – 30 months

4. Cross-Linguistic Findings Gunderson, L. (2007). English-only Instruction and Immigrant Students in Secondary Schools: A Critical Examination. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates. First words – 180 different languages – 12 – 36 months

5. Cross-Linguistics Findings 2-3 word sentences English speaker - 18 – 30 months 2-3 word sentences – 180 different languages – 12 – 36 months

6. Cross-Linguistic Findings First learned to read Native English – kindergarten – 6 years 180 languages – 3 to 7 years Hong Kong – 3 years old Scandinavian Countries – 7 years old

7. Findings?

8. Model Findings Bottom-up? Top-down? Interactive? Psycholinguistic?

9. Interesting Findings