An Annotated Bibliography

Nasser Alhajri

Requirement # 4

1) Vernon-Feagans, L., Garrett-Peters, P., Willoughby, M., & Mills-Koonce, R. (2012) “Chaos, Poverty, and Parenting: Predictors of early language development. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 27, pp. 339-351

The authors are affiliated with the University of North Carolina. Similarly, it was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. This article is intended for academes as well as professionals working under the realms of child health and development. This study reinforces other readings that the researcher has read. This article is relevant to the topic as it explores how the external factors affect language development. According to this article, distal family factors such as poverty and parental education influence the child’s early language development. This means that a child’s exposure to a chaotic household as well as lower demographic surroundings may be a source of poor language development. This study takes a look at how children living under low income communities are affected in terms of their language development.

2) Caudill, E., & Murphy, P. (2000) “Consumer Online Privacy: Legal and Ethical Issues”. Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, 19, pp. 7-19

This scholarly article discusses the issue of consumer privacy as a public policy issue. According to the authors, the growth of the Internet has created a number of concerns regarding the protection of privacy of consumers, particularly their online activities and other information. This article examines both the historical as well as the conceptual analyses of privacy. Similarly, it will also discuss the domestic and international regulatory approaches used in confronting the World Wide Web’s privacy issue. The authors similarly applied ethical theories to consumer privacy as they offer suggestions for both corporate and public policies as well as a research agenda.

3)Hoff, E. (2006)“How Social Context Support and Shape Language Development”. Developmental Review, 26, pp.55-88

The author of this scholarly article is connected with Florida Atlantic University under the Department of Psychology. The history of research on the topic is extensive as evident on the numerous references used by the author. This article is mainly intended for the academes and scholars, particularly those who are studying language development.

The scope of this article is relevant as it explains how the environment affects language development. The findings of this study reinforce other readings that the researcher has read. This article posits that although human potential for language is based on human biology, it is the social environment that makes this skill possible. This is primarily evident in various researches that suggest that all human environments support language acquisition as it provides the child with opportunities to communicate. This article reports various evidences regarding the nature of those environmental requirements as well as the different social contexts in which children meet those requirements. Similarly, this paper studies the effects of environmental variability and how children meet their requirement in terms of language development.

4)Roszak, T. (1994). The Cult of Information. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Roszak (1994) asserts that, “The invasion of privacy has been the single most widely publicized and discussed social issue surrounding computers” (p. 206). In the years before the Patriot Act, there were a series of legislative measures and new technologies that professed to protect personal information, yet none of these were proven effective. Roszak argues that, “In little more than a generation, information transfer technology has simply become too big and too dynamic to be tightly regulated” (p. 206). Indeed, it was this element that terrorists were able to exploit in carrying out the logistical planning for September 11. Roszak points out many loopholes in the system that continues to exist. Perhaps most importantly he notes the causes of these loopholes, such as the quest for profit and unwillingness to make the necessary sacrifices and devote the necessary resources.

5) Baumwell, L., Tamis-LeMonda, C., and Bornstein, M. (1997). “Maternal Verbal Sensitivity and Child Language Comprehension”. Infant Behavior and Development, 20, pp. 247-258.

The authors of this article are affiliated with the New York University as well as with the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. This article was retrieved from Elsevier, a site that provides full-scientific database of peer-reviewed journals.

The article involves a longitudinal investigation regarding the link between maternal behavior and the child’s language comprehension. According to this study, the verbal sensitivity of the mother as well as her interaction with the child are two factors that promote language comprehension among children.