Cognitive Approach

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1. What does the approach suggest?

  • A parents influence is vital to a child's acqusition of language.
  • Children can only use a certain linguistic structure when they understand the concept.
  • Children acquire language from positive and negative reinforcement.
  • Children have an innate ability to acquire language.
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2. What is egocentric speech?

  • All about children using language to help make sense of the world they are experiencing, and to order and classify their environment. Usually used when alone.
  • All about children using language to play and create imaginary scenarios.
  • All about communicating with and influencing the world in which we live in.
  • All about children using language in a creative format to create stories, etc.

3. Why did Vgotsky not agree with the idea of egocentric speech?

  • He believed children stopped using it once realising it is not done by adults around them.
  • It was the same as social speech
  • Not every child features signs of it
  • It is not used as often as social speech

4. What was challanged?

  • The idea that to understand language you need to understand the concept behind it
  • The idea that language is innate
  • The idea of egocentric speech
  • The idea of social speech

5. What are the two catogries language use is divided in?

  • Social and Egocentric speech
  • Social and Intellectual speech
  • Interactive and Communatitive speech
  • Intellectual and Creative speech
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