Stages of phonological and grammatical development
Stages of writing and spelling
Phonics approaches to reading - overlaps with writing/spelling
Clay's Principals
Rothery
Kroll
Barclay
Britton
Nativist - Chomsky
Behaviourist - Skinner
Social Interactionist - Bruner
Cognitive - Piaget
Vygotsky looks at cognitive and social interactionist ideas
Aitchison - Labelling, packaging, networking
Halliday's functions
Dore's functions
Nelson's crib talk and categories of first words
Wug Test
Fis Phenomenon
Power theories can also be applied to the relationships
Gender theories can apply, especially challenging Lakoff's ideas about tag questions - they have a different purpose for Child Language
