CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Skinner suggested that a child imitates the language of its parents or carers. Successful attempts are rewarded because an adult who recognises a word spoken by a child will praise the child and/or give it what it is asking for. Successful utterances are therefore reinforced while unsuccessful ones are forgotten.

Detailed explanation-2: -Theory Central Idea Individual with theory Behaviourist Children imitate adults. Their correct utterances are reinforced when they get what they want or are praised. Innateness A child’s brain contains special language-learning mechanisms at birth.

Detailed explanation-3: -Theory of Imitation: the idea that children imitated what they heard around them. This theory is based on the behaviorism of B. F. Skinner and the work of Pavlov.

Detailed explanation-4: -According to the Behaviorist Theory, Skinner (1985) equated learning a language to verbal behavior. Therefore, he believes that language acquisition like any other behavior can be observed, rather than trying to explain the mental systems underlying these types of behaviors.

Detailed explanation-5: -Hence, we can conclude that behaviourist theory of language development suggested that children learn the language as a reaction to their parent’s reinforcement. Innateness Theory: Noam Chomsky published a criticism of the behaviourist theory in 1957.