A2 English Theories of Language Development Finished
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- A2 English Theories of Language Development
- Imitation theory
- Skinner 1957
- language is acquired through imitation and reinforcement
- children repeat what they hear (imitation)
- caregivers reward a childs effort with praise
- This approach says that children learn all the specific pronunciations of individual words by copying an adult
- therefore in theory it explains an important part of their phonological development
- language is acquired through imitation and reinforcement
- Problems with imitation
- children can construct sentences they have never heart before
- they do not memorise thousands of sentences to use later
- imitation cant explain overgeneralizations "he runned away" and also the fis phenomenon
- Skinner 1957
- Innate
- Chomsky 1965
- argued that a child's ability to acquire language is inbuilt
- isnt taught but is a natural development when children are exposed to language
- LAD Device
- allows them to take in and use grammatical rules of language
- Early Stages of Language Acquisition
- Vocal Play
- Crying
- Cooing
- 6-8 weeks
- small range of sounds
- Vowels
- Babbling
- Six Months
- repeated vowel/ consonant clusters
- MA-MA-MA
- Vocal Play
- Chomsky 1965
- Cognitive Approach
- Piaget
- stated that a child needs to have developed certain mental abilities before he/she can acquire particular parts of language
- 1. Egongentice
- cannot have the concept of something if it exists outside of their immediate surroundings
- 2. Object permanence
- objects can exist all the time even if they cant see them
- big increase in vocabulary
- 18 months
- objects can exist all the time even if they cant see them
- 3. Abstract consepts
- a child is now better equipped to understand the past, present and future
- 1. Egongentice
- stated that a child needs to have developed certain mental abilities before he/she can acquire particular parts of language
- Focuses more on the importance of mental processes
- criticism
- does not explain how learning difficulties are still linguistically fluent.
- Piaget
- Input Approach
- argues that in order for language to develop there has to be linguistic interaction with caregivers
- Bruner
- suggested that there is a LASS System
- a system where care givers support their heir child's linguistic developments in social situations
- meal time
- bath time
- children who are deprived of early language don't acquire it as easily
- Lenneberg
- Critical period hypothesis
- Lenneberg
- a system where care givers support their heir child's linguistic developments in social situations
- suggested that there is a LASS System
- Sociocultural Theory
- Vygotsky
- Private speech
- when a child talks aloud itself
- V saw this as a major step forward in a child's mental development
- when a child talks aloud itself
- ZPD Zone of Proximal Development
- where careers help the child in order to interact by encouraging a response e.g. doctors
- Private speech
- This Theory suggests that social interaction and experiencing social and cultural contexts are important
- Vygotsky
- Imitation theory
- children who are deprived of early language don't acquire it as easily
- Lenneberg
- Critical period hypothesis
- Lenneberg
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