THEORIES OF HOW CHILDREN LEARN LANGUAGE ACQUISITION’ ASSESSMENT 03B/4 PART 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION 2 MAIN STAGES OF LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT 5 NURTURE‚ OPERANT CONDITIONING AND LEARNING THEORY 9 NATURE/NATIVIST THEORY 13 PIAGET’S COGNITIVE THEORY 16 VYGOTSKY AND BRUNER’S COGNITIVE THEORIES 19 CULTURAL RELATIVITY 24 FACTORS THAT AFFECT LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT 25 HOW ADULTS CAN PROMOTE LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT 28 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND COGNITIVE
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he Structure of Language Language is a system of symbols and rules that is used for meaningful communication. A system of communication has to meet certain criteria in order to be considered a language: A language uses symbols‚ which are sounds‚ gestures‚ or written characters that represent objects‚ actions‚ events‚ and ideas. Symbols enable people to refer to objects that are in another place or events that occurred at a different time. A language is meaningful and therefore can be understood
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separating the formal systems of language from other kinds of knowledge and skills‚ as in particular work of Noam Chomsky. The author suggests that we need to take further account of his ideas. Chomsky claims that all human beings are born with the innate faculty. In this view‚ Universal Grammar (UG) plays an important role in learning a language. It forms linguistic competence. According to Chomsky‚ language is more biological than social. Some features that involved in its use like body language or
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that preservation of the natural environment‚ human rights (especially workplace rights and conditions) and democratic institutions are likely to be placed at undue risk by globalization unless mandatory standards are attached to liberalisation. Noam Chomsky stated in 2002 that The term "globalization" has been appropriated by the powerful to refer to a specific form of international economic integration‚ one based on investor rights‚ with the interests of people incidental. That is why the
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goals. The desired outcome of the language learning process is the ability to communicate competently‚ not the ability to use the language exactly as a native speaker does. (English Varieties). History and development of different Theories: Noam Chomsky (1965): The idea was originally derived from Chomsky’s distinction between competence and performace. Language is a psychological process that is bornwith the person who has innate knowledge of grammar. (performance and competence) Performance
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made from it by experience. The child is born with the form of possible concepts innate within it. These examples are the good illustrators of the debate at hand. This idea of innate knowledge is still of great importance as the foremost linguist‚ Noam Chomsky‚ revived it so as to use it to describe how language is acquired. It is thus significant to look more closely
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Structuralism Structuralism is a mode of thinking and a method of analysis practiced in 20th-century social sciences and humanities; it focuses on recurring patterns of thought and behaviour it seeks to analyse social relationships in terms of highly abstract relational structures. Structuralism is distinctly different from that applied to Radcliffe-Brown it involves more the bio and psychological aspect of human studies rather than social structures. Claude Levi-Strauss was the one to pioneer
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communicative competence with reference to the dialogue and other supporting evidence. In relation to linguistic competence‚ Linguist Noam Chomsky (1990‚ 1986) affirms that ‘language is an innate human ability which is biologically determined and follows a predictable path’ (Mayor‚ 2012‚ pg 92) suggesting that children are familiar with language from birth. However‚ Chomsky in contrast also states that ‘minimal language input is required to trigger the language learning process’ (Mayor‚ 2012‚ pg 92) testifying
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hypothesis propagated by Slobin‚ followed by a critical analysis of each one’s availability or the lack of it‚ to the learners of second language‚ referring to relevant linguistic theories. Arguing against the innatist linguistic theory‚ proposed by Noam Chomsky (1965)‚ which conceives of a Language Acquisition Device‚
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