CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Overgeneralization Examples We may, for example, predict the outcome of something based on just one instance of it: After going on a job interview and finding out we didn’t get the job, we conclude we’ll never get a job (overgeneralizing) and feel hopeless about our career, leading to sadness and depression.

Detailed explanation-2: -Overregularization (overgeneralization) Overregularization is defined as the “application of a principle of regular change to a word that changes irregularly.” Examples of overregularization in verb use include using the word comed instead of came. Examples in noun use include using the word tooths instead of teeth.

Detailed explanation-3: -Young children often extend known words to referents outside their vocabulary, a phenomenon known as overextension (Clark, 1978). For example, children might extend dog to refer to a squirrel, ball to refer to a balloon, or key to refer to a door.

Detailed explanation-4: -Applied to the mistakes children make as they develop grammatically. It implies that children make choices from a linguistic basis, and therefore are logical. Because english has many irregularities, these seem ‘wrong’. Linguists call some of these errors over-generalisations.