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- 1. Theories of Language Acquisition
- 4. Behaviorist Theory Languageis acquired throughprinciples of conditioning, including association, imitation, and reinforcement.
- 5. Behaviorist Theory According to this view, children learn words by associating sounds with objects, actions, and events.
- 6. Behaviorist Theory The theory can be summed up as: LISTEN, IMITATE, RECEIVE A REWARD, REPEAT FOR RECALL.
- 7. Behaviorist Theory Criticisms: • Learningcannot account forthe rapid rate at whichchildren acquire language.
- 8. Behaviorist Theory Criticisms: There can be an infinite number of sentences in a language. All these sentences cannot be learned by imitation.
- 9. Behaviorist Theory Criticisms: Children make errors, such as overregularizing verbs.
- 10. Behaviorist Theory Criticisms: Children acquire language skills even though adults do notconsistently correct their syntax.
- 11. Behaviorist Theory The theory can be summed up as: LISTEN, IMITATE, RECEIVE A REWARD, REPEAT FOR RECALL.
- 13. Nativist Theory Chomsky suggests that language is an innate faculty.
- 14. Nativist Theory Chomsky claims that language acquisitionis greatlydependentupon a linguisticfaculty whichhe terms LanguageAcquisitionDevice(LAD), an innatemechanism or process that allowschildrento developlanguage skillsor Universal Grammar, around which alllanguagesare built.
- 15. Nativist Theory Basedon the assumption,there are “core” and “language specific” rules in all languages.
- 16. Nativist Theory Whena learner comes across “languagespecific”he will tend to refer to his first language(L1). Thus, if a learner discovers that a second language (L2) rule is not inaccordance with the universal rule, he willattempt to interpret that ruleby means of the equivalentrule inhis L1.
- 17. Interactionist Theory Interactionists argue that language development is both biological and social.
- 18. Interactionist Theory They also argue that language learning is influenced by the desire of children to communicate with others.
- 19. Interactionist Theory Theybelievethat "childrenareborn with a powerful brain thatmatures slowlyand predisposesthem to acquirenew understandingsthatthey are motivatedto share with others" (Bates,1993;Tomasello,1995, as cited in shaffer,et al.,2002,p.362).
- 20. Interactionist Theory They also argue that language learning is influenced by the desire of children to communicate with others.