Advancing the Multimodal Language Acquisition Framework Through Collaborative Dialogue

Karadoller D. Z., Sumer B., Ozyurek A.

FIRST LANGUAGE, cilt.45, sa.6, ss.797-809, 2025 (AHCI, SSCI, Scopus) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 45 Sayı: 6
  • Basım Tarihi: 2025
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1177/01427237251379276
  • Dergi Adı: FIRST LANGUAGE
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, IBZ Online, Education Abstracts, Educational research abstracts (ERA), ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Linguistic Bibliography, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, Psycinfo
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.797-809
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Language acquisition unfolds within inherently multimodal contexts, where communication is expressed and perceived through diverse channels embedded in social interactions. For hearing children, this involves integrating speech with gesture; for deaf children, language develops through fully visual modalities. Such observations necessitate a paradigm shift from speech-centric models to a holistic framework that equally values all modalities, whether in spoken or signed languages. This framework must account not only for the multimodal scaffolding of input and interaction but also for individual and contextual diversity, including the cultural and cognitive variabilities children bring to language learning contexts. Responding to commentaries on our target article, this paper refines and expands the multimodal language framework, emphasizing its capacity to integrate the interactive richness of input and the heterogeneous contexts and individual variations shaping language acquisition.