Language- Unit One
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- Created on: 17-09-18 11:07
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- Langauge
- Intellectual
- Language development
- Problem sovling
- Memory
- Moral development
- Abstract thoughts and creative thinking
- 5 stages
- Language is a code that we learn to use in order to communicate ideas and express our wants and needs.
- Reading writing speaking and gestures are all forms
- Language development
- The fastest learning takes place between 2 & 5
- By age 7 a child has learnt the basics of vocab, grammar and sentence formation.
- Language Acquisition
- The process by which humans acquire the ability to recognise and understand langauge,, as well as to produce and use words and sentences to communicate
- Nurture
- Theorists propose that language is an entirely learned behaviour
- Skinner 1957. He accounted for language development by means of environmental influence
- Skinner argued that children learn langauage based on behaviour reinfourcement principles byh associating words with meanings.
- Praise. For example when an infant is babbling and happens to say a word they are rewarded
- Punishment. When a child says an incorrect word they are ignored, corrected, then not provided with a reward.
- Nature
- Proposed by Chomsky. Didn't agree with the 'nuture' viewpoint
- Chomsky proposed a language acquisition device that is 'an essential language resvior filled with information about the rules of language structure.
- He believed that you are born with a specific part of the brain, designed to process language
- Children do not need any kind of formal learning to know how to speak.
- He also believed there is an optimal learning age between ages 3-10 when a child is most likely to adapt and learn the langiuage
- The child doesn't need a trigger to begin speaking. It happens on it's own. The parent doesn't need to coax a child to speak, the child will produce it on his own.
- It doesn't matter if a child is correct, if they get it wrong that will develop it on their own
- Drawbaaks to Chomskey's theory
- Lack of scientific evidence
- No consideration of children with delayed development, hearing or speech impairment
- Too much emphasis on the grammar rather than how children construct
- Intellectual
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