Child Language Acquisition (Speech) Theorists
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- Child Language Acquisition Theorists (Speech)
- B.F Skinner
- Imitation and Positive reinforcement
- Strengths of argument
- Imitation is vital
- Nurture debate
- Weaknesses to argument
- There are key stages in development
- More than just imitation
- Doesn't consider child's understanding of grammar or ability to form sentences
- 'I wented' or 'I knowed' is not learnt through imitation
- Noam Chomsky
- Nature debate
- Weaknesses
- Dismissed importance of imitation (Skinner)
- Suggests that we have a natural ability to acquire language
- Established L.A.D
- Language acquisition device
- Strengths
- Speed of lang development is different for everyone
- Supported by childs use of over/under-extension
- I wented or I knowed
- Jerome Bruner
- Social Interaction Theory
- Suggested that although we do have a natural ability to learn language, support is essentiel
- L.A.S.S
- Language Acquisition support system
- Language development influenced by...
- Child Directed Speech
- External support
- Interaction
- Environment (Ritualised activities)
- Lev Vygostky
- Social Interaction Theory
- Established the idea of an MKO and ZPD
- MKO (more knowledgeable other)
- ZPD (zone of proximal development
- MKO helps to develop childs ZPD, so they can learn without assistance
- Two stages of language development: things that children can and cannot yet do
- Jean Piaget
- Cognitive Theory
- Children are active learners but will not learn until they are ready
- Strengths
- There are connections between cognitive and language acquisition
- Weaknesses
- Some aspects of LA are separate from cognitive development
- Katherine Nelson
- Categorised organisation system to identify a child's first word
- four categories
- Naming (things or people)
- Describing or modifying words
- Actions and events
- Social or personal words
- 60% of first words are nouns
- John Dore
- Language functions
- Michael Halliday
- 7 different functions of speech
- Instrumental (to fulfill a need)
- Interactional (maintain social relations)
- Regulatory (influences others behaviour
- Representational (facts and information)
- Personal (express opinion)
- Heuristic (environment)
- Imaginative
- Jean Aitchinson
- Labelling
- Packaging
- Network building
- Jean Berko
- Fis phenomenon
- child said fis instead of fish
- refused to accept this pronunciation from adults
- Children understanding more syllables than they can pronounce
- B.F Skinner
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