GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
COGNITION AND EMOTIONS
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by parents reinforcing correct language use.
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using an inborn ability to learn language at a certain developmental stage.
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best in the language and culture native to the child and parents
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only if formal language instruction is provided in the child’s native language.
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best through the phonics instructional method, because children retain how to pronounce all the phonemes required for the language.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Nativist theories posit that children are born with the innate ability to acquire language and thus are able to acquire and master the grammar of their native language by the age of three.
Detailed explanation-2: -in linguistics, the theory that human beings are born with an innate knowledge of language that enables them to structure and interpret the data they encounter as language learners.
Detailed explanation-3: -Which of the following statements is true about the nativist theory of language development? It emphasizes the role of imitation and reinforcement in language development in children.
Detailed explanation-4: -In linguistics, the innateness hypothesis holds that humans are born with at least some knowledge of linguistic structure. On this hypothesis, language acquisition involves filling in the details of an innate blueprint rather than being an entirely inductive process.
Detailed explanation-5: -Noam Chomsky developed the language acquisition theory in order to explain this phenomenon. According to Chomsky, the ability to learn languages is an innate skill. Children are born with a language learning tool that he called a language acquisition device.