Key theorists 2
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- Key Theorists 2
- Vygotsky: Social Interactionism
- Zone of Proximal Development
- Vygotsky developed a model to describe learning
- Children have things they can do and things they can't do
- In the middle is the ZPD. This consists of the things they can do but with help
- Vygotsky claimed it is in their zone of proximal development that children are learning
- More Knowledgeable other
- Vygotsky strongly emphasized the role of a more advanced and skilled person/s in a child's life to provide help, support and encouragement
- This is usually an adult/s but it can sometimes be another child
- Typically the MKO scaffolds learning for a child
- Zone of Proximal Development
- Chomsky (Nativism) 'the argument from the poverty of stimulus'
- Chomsky argues that language is primarily a biologically inherited skill and that our natural capacity for language causes us to acquire whatever language is around us
- We are driven to learn language by our genes
- LAD (Language Acquisition Device) refers to a specific area of the brain which Chomsky said was responsible for processing language
- Skinner says that children learn by imitation
- But the language children are exposed is incomplete (i.e. a poor stimulus)
- But children still workout the whole language
- The answer lies in the child's mind
- They have a biological gift for learning language a 'language acquisition device', that includes a natural knowledge of how languages work
- Patricia Kuhl (the Genius of Babies)
- Critical Period
- The period where babies start to learn language.
- It is critical for development because if you don't learn language then babies won't be able to speak that language
- After 7 and after puberty (12/13 years old) it is harder to learn language
- 'Citizen's of the World'
- Children are born to listen and speak any language
- They can distinguish every sound in every language
- Phonemic expansion
- Make all sounds we know
- Phonemic Contraction
- The sounds they make contract to their native language (9 months)
- Critical Period
- Vygotsky: Social Interactionism
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