Child Language Acquisition Theorists

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Chomsky
Children are born with the ability to read and speak. Children have a language acquisition device ‘LAD’. Children go through the same stage.
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Piaget
Cognitive theory. Cannot process without existence. However you need to experience it to understand it.
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Pinker
Children learn words from parents but work them out for themselves.
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Bruner
Cognitive development of children. Three stages are enactive, iconic and symbolic. He suggests that from a young age, children are capable of learning any material so long as the instruction is organised appropriately.
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Vygotsky
The effects of culture which is the tools of intellectual adaption. He believes the elementary mental functions are attention, sensation, perception and memory.
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Skinner
Children learn through initiation. Child directed speech.
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Cognitive theory. Cannot process without existence. However you need to experience it to understand it.

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Children learn words from parents but work them out for themselves.

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Cognitive development of children. Three stages are enactive, iconic and symbolic. He suggests that from a young age, children are capable of learning any material so long as the instruction is organised appropriately.

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The effects of culture which is the tools of intellectual adaption. He believes the elementary mental functions are attention, sensation, perception and memory.

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