NATIVISM/INNATENESS - CHOMSKY - Advantages and disadvantages table in A Level and IB English Language

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Created on: 30-05-17 11:47


	NATIVISM/INNATENESS - CHOMSKY
	Advantages Children resist correction Children experience the same stages of development at the same pace	Disadvantages Children who have been deprived of social contact can't achieve complete communicative competence Children need input to give them more skills than grammar, e.g. pragmatic understanding LENNEBURG and FERAL CHILDREN CASE STUDIES - some language processes can be acquired but full grammatical fluency is never achieved. Children weren't able to acquire language effectively when they returned to society.ALSO SUGGESTED- language has to be acquired within a 'critical period', really within the first five years.
	Evaluation When the brain is exposed to speech, it will automatically begin to receive and make sense of the utterance as it is 'programmed' to do so. Although some linguistic interaction with parents/carers is necessary, there is a genetic element in the human brain; a 'language acquisition device' (L.A.D), which enables children to use language to work out what is and is not linguistically acceptable. This also provides children with an innate understanding of the underlying grammatical rules that govern language.

NATIVISM/INNATENESS - CHOMSKY

Advantages

Children resist correction
Children experience the same stages of development at the same pace

Disadvantages

Children who have been deprived of social contact can't achieve complete communicative competence
Children need input to give them more skills than grammar, e.g. pragmatic understanding
LENNEBURG and FERAL CHILDREN CASE STUDIES - some language processes can be acquired but full grammatical fluency is never achieved. Children weren't able to acquire language effectively when they returned to society.ALSO SUGGESTED- language has to be acquired within a 'critical period', really within the first five years.

Evaluation

When the brain is exposed to speech, it will automatically begin to receive and make sense of the utterance as it is 'programmed' to do so. Although some linguistic interaction with parents/carers is necessary, there is a genetic element in the human brain; a 'language acquisition device' (L.A.D), which enables children to use language to work out what is and is not linguistically acceptable. This also provides children with an innate understanding of the underlying grammatical rules that govern language.

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