CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Linguist Noam Chomsky, who favors the nature position, believes that much of our language capacity is inborn. According to this perspective, just as “learning” to walk is programmed according to a timetable of biological maturation, so children are prewired to begin to babble and talk.

Detailed explanation-2: -The nativist theory defends that all children are born with the ability to develop language skills and to organize them within the grammatical rules of their native language. In other words, language is innate to the individuals and part of the human experience (Litchfield & Lambert, 2011).

Detailed explanation-3: -It can be concluded that both nature and nurture play an important role in the development of language acquisition. This is because we need our genes and brain to build a language acquisition device (LAD), and then, after we have the ability to learn a language, our acquired environment acts on our language system.