CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

CHOMSKY LANGUAGE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
According to Chomsky when children make errors in their speech adults should
A
Tell them they are incorrect and explain why
B
repeat it back to them correctly.
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Chomsky concluded that children must have an inborn faculty for language acquisition. According to this theory, the process is biologically determined-the human species has evolved a brain whose neural circuits contain linguistic information at birth.

Detailed explanation-2: -Chomsky points out that a child could not possibly learn a language through imitation alone because the language spoken around them is highly irregular – adult’s speech is often broken up and even sometimes ungrammatical.

Detailed explanation-3: -A theory developed by Noam Chomsky who believed that every child has a Language Acquisition Device. The LAD is a structure in the brain that infants are born with, allowing them to quickly learn and understand language as they mature.

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