Language Acquisition Theorists
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- Language Acquisition Theorists
- Chomsky-Nativist
- Language is innate
- LAD
- Encodes the major principles of language and it's grammatical structure into the childs brain
- Applies to all languages
- Virtuous errors
- Overextension
- Resist correction
- Skinner-Behaviourist
- Positive/negative reinforcement
- Conditioning
- Imitation theory
- Children learn language through imitating and repeating language from others
- Piaget-Cognitive
- Language comes with knowledge
- Piaget outlined 4 stages of child language development
- Sensori-motor stage (0-2 years)
- Baby can differentiate from self and objects
- Pre-operational stage (2-7 years)
- Can classify objects as a single feature
- Still thinks egocentrically
- Concrete operational stage (7-11 years)
- Can think logically about objects and events and achieve conservation of number
- Formal operational stage (11 years +)
- Becomes concerned with the hypothetical, the future, and ideological problems
- Sensori-motor stage (0-2 years)
- "Little apprentices"
- Bruner-Social Interraction
- LASS
- The idea of the LASS is that caregivers support children in social situations and encourage them to interact and respond
- Interaction scaffolds development
- Turn-taking
- Child directed speech
- LASS
- Vygotsky-Cognitive
- Language aids understanding
- Egocentric speech goes underground and becomes the silence with which you think
- ZPD-zone of proximal development
- This is the difference between what a learner can do withoiut help and what they can do with help
- "Little scientist"
- Aitchison
- "Language has a biologically organised schedule"
- In 1987, she identified 3 stages that occur during a child's acquisition of vocabulary
- 1.Labeling
- Involves making the link between the sounds of particular objects and the object itself
- 3. Network Building
- Involves grasping the connections between words e.g. opposites and synonyms.
- 2. Packaging
- Over-extension
- Under-extention
- 1.Labeling
- Lenneberg
- Critical period (2-7 years)
- Chomsky-Nativist
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