CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

COGNITION AND EMOTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
This theorist believed humans were born with a language acquisition device, meaning children are predisposed to learning language quickly.
A
Hermann Ebbinghaus
B
Noam Chomsky
C
George Sperling
D
Benjamin Whorf
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -A Language Acquisition Device (LAD) is a hypothetical tool in the human brain that lets children learn and understand language quickly. A theory developed by Noam Chomsky who believed that every child has a Language Acquisition Device.

Detailed explanation-4: -Chomsky and the language acquisition device The view is known as nativism and was advocated by Noam Chomsky, who suggested that infants are equipped with a neurological construct referred to as the language acquisition device (LAD), which makes infants ready for language.

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