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This book explores theories, research and practical application of children's language studies. Psychologists such as John B Watson who is a world renowned behaviourist, are featured in the book. Specifically how children learn, applying his theory of classical and operant conditioning. This is where he suggests that through the manipulation of the environment, children could be trained to do anything. If I was to use this book, I would investigate the ways in which children learn and use children with different capabilities.

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Bee and Boyd
HB and DB
2004
The developing child.
10th
American
Harper collins

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  1. Anonymous14 June 2016 at 04:01

    You could observe in a nursery about how quickly a child could learn about a new topic. To test it you could ask them a few questions on the topic but in a way they will not know they are being tested.

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  2. Unknown16 June 2016 at 08:18

    How could you test the effect of operant conditioning linguistically? Might be problematic ethically. Great area to research though - look at Bruner's 'spiral curriculum' and Skinner's 'operant conditioning' too. Maybe something ethical will come to you.

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