CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

LANGUAGE ACQUISITION THEORIES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Children are born with a(n) ____ to acquire language
A
Experience
B
Innate capacity
C
Imitation
D
Skills
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Everyone is born with the capacity to develop and learn any language. Language development is instinctive. Every child has a “Language Acquisition Device”, or LAD for short. The LAD is a tool that is found in the brain; it enables the child to rapidly develop the rules of language.

Detailed explanation-2: -It argues that language is acquired through an interaction between innate capacity-an innate ability to produce words and utterances-and language input, the language acquired from the human surroundings.

Detailed explanation-3: -A newborn arrives in this world with the inherent capacity to learn. This includes simple reflexes such as sucking, Moro reflexes, grasping etc. These “pre-installed” capacities help the baby to survive, particularly in the early months before there has been time to gaining new capabilities through learning.

Detailed explanation-4: -An innate capacity for language In 1957, linguist Noam Chomsky published a groundbreaking book called “Syntactic Structures.” It proposed a novel idea: All human beings may be born with an innate understanding of how language works.

Detailed explanation-5: -Linguistic nativism. Linguistic nativism is the hypothesis that humans are born with some knowledge of language. It is intended as an explanation for the fact that children are reliably able to accurately acquire enormously complex linguistic structures within a short period of time.

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