English Language A-Level
Caregiver and peer interaction
What Caregiver and peer interaction means in English Language A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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How caregivers, siblings and peers scaffold or extend the functions a child uses, for example through questions, expansions or recasts.
Topics that use Caregiver and peer interaction
- Children’s language development (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Conventions and audience awareness
- Development of communicative competence
- Functions and purposes of child language
- Genre as purpose-driven text type
- Mode
- Pragmatics and speech acts
- Research evidence and studies
- Speech and writing as different modes
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