Ella's Amazing Language Acq. Theorists
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- Created by: Ella
- Created on: 13-02-13 13:45
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- Language Acquisition Theorists
- BEHAVIOURIST B.F.Skinner
- Children immitate language they hear
- caetakers correct and reinforce the childs utterances until they become correct
- PROBLEMS: children can create their own syntactical structures. E.G. "I seened it"
- Skinner and Interactional both very similar, but Skinner refers to adults being more proactive, E.G. 'can you say...'
- INTERACTIONAL
- Interaction is important
- Adults alter the way they speak to provide opportunities for children to take part in discourse
- Referred to as 'motherese' or 'caretakers'
- BEHAVIOURIST B.F.Skinner
- Children immitate language they hear
- caetakers correct and reinforce the childs utterances until they become correct
- PROBLEMS: children can create their own syntactical structures. E.G. "I seened it"
- Skinner and Interactional both very similar, but Skinner refers to adults being more proactive, E.G. 'can you say...'
- INTERACTIONAL
- Interaction is important
- Adults alter the way they speak to provide opportunities for children to take part in discourse
- Referred to as 'motherese' or 'caretakers'
- INTERACTIONAL
- INTERACTIONAL
- COGNITIVE PIAGET
- Language development is an interactional development
- Children will only say things when they understand the meaning behind them
- NATIVISM Chomsky and Lenneburg
- Children have an innate capacity to learn language
- The human brain has a Language Acquisition Device
- There is a critical period in which the LAD must be activated for a child to learn language to the best of their capability
- BEHAVIOURIST B.F.Skinner
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