Human Growth and Development / Unit 7 HGD 0967 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Pragmatics
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The idea
Pragmatics is using language appropriately in social contexts: for different purposes, listeners and written forms, following hidden rules of turn-taking, eye contact and gesture.
In practice
A child speaking one way to a toddler sibling and another way to a teacher.
Where people slip
Children with ADHD scored lower on pragmatics than typical peers but higher than children with developmental language disorder.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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