CLA

- Chomsky 

- Lennenberg 

- Berko and Brown 

• Language is innate, we all have a language acquisition device. L.A.D.

- Skinner

- Behaviour is learnt/taught.

- Piaget 

- Halliday and Dore 

• Children must understand concepts in order to use language.

- Bruner 

- Vygotsky 

-Language is acquired through assistance (scaffolding). L.A.S.S,

- Found that children resist correction.

- Children with families with impoverished english will still use ‘correct’ grammar.

- Children make virtuous errors “I run-ed”.

• there is Critical Learning Period of up to 5 years when a child can and will acquire language.

• Says Chomsky is correct.

• Children learn pronouns, positives + negatives in 3 stages.

• Grammar + syntax  wrong.

• Grammar or syntax wrong.

• Grammar + syntax right.

- “Fis phenomenon” children resists correction.

- “Wugs”

- children invent and use grammar themselves.

• Operant conditioning

• Imitation and repetition

• Rules of social Behaviour and grammar.

- Children must understand meaning in language in order to utilise it.

• Look at functions of language.

• How and why children use language.

- language is acquired through assistance (scaffolding).

- L.A.S.S. (language acqusition support system).

- CDS child directed speech (paralinguistics).

- Children use role-play, place + time of transcription.