Talk:Anne Fernald

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Anne Fernald Wikipedia Peer Review

1. Right away a key thing I notice is that the article goes well into detail. The first paragraph is very descriptive on the test and the measures they took to study language acquisition from speech. As you continue to read further into the article you are presented with more details of the studies that Anne Fernald conducted. The article was lengthy but in a good way. It properly and thoroughly helps the readers understanding of of language acquisition from a socioeconomic status, pitch and tone of adults in relation to communication, and how infants perceive emotions when watching television. I think it does a pretty fair job of answering the question, “Is early experience with language linked to the development of efficiency in language processing…”

2. The first thing I would mention is to procure a picture of Anne Fernald if possible; it will help with the visual aspect of your article and prevent readers from seeing simply blocks of text. Capitalize the ‘r’ in Career and research as it is the title of a section. As a suggestion, I think the sentences can be shortened into more specific, concise sentences that get straight to the point. Some sentences seem to be dragged on with ‘and’.

Original: Recently, she has also begun to study language development in bilingual Spanish-English speaking children and children who are learning Spanish in addition to English.

Suggested: Her most recent research examines both primary and secondary bilingualism in Spanish-English children.

Original: Her research has shown that infants prefer baby talk to adult speech and that it plays an important role in their language development,[3] and that baby talk has universal features that span multiple cultures and languages.

Suggested: Her research shows that baby talk, an important role in infant language development, is a universal phenomena which spans across multiple languages and cultures. The studies also show that infants respond better to baby talk as opposed to adult speech.

Lastly, I would swap the order of the two paragraphs. It makes more sense for the information to follow the same order as the title.

3. I think the most important thing that the author(s) can do to improve this article is too segment/break down the information. As it is right now, it is a bit overwhelming to read. This could be done by labeling/titled paragraphs. For example Studies by Anne Fernald In one of her studies, Anne Fernald dives deep into how infants perceive different emotions when watching television. One simulation included, infants observing actors on a tv express negative and positive…..

I can see that you wrote extensively about the studies that Fernald did relevant to language acquisition but it would be great if the information was presented in a more interesting way. It seemed like I was just reading the abstract of the research paper. Maybe if you presented the information in terms of importance of language acquisition such as: Child Directed Speech Social Referencing

I just feel that the information should be broken down a bit more in smaller, more digestible pieces of information. 4. In your article, you mention that Anne Fernald conducted a study that looked at how children reacted to television. In our article we are looking at how electronics affect child language development, and we have found that they have positive results when using ipads in the classroom. It is interesting that they react positively to television as well even though they are looking more at the children’s emotions rather than then their language acquisition. I believe this could be useful to our own article since we haven’t looked at the effects of language development with television. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zblecman (talk • contribs) 19:08, 15 November 2018 (UTC)