CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

LANGUAGE ACQUISITION THEORIES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Chomsky says that ____
A
punishments influence the acquisition of language.
B
Stimulus and reinforcement influence the acquisition of language.
C
Imitation and asociation influence the acquisition of language.
D
Nature and Nurture influence the acquisition of language.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Chomsky spearheaded the ‘mentalist’ theory of language acquisition, which hypothesizes that language is innate to us as human beings; it is as natural to us as breathing. On other side of the argument, or the nurture side, ‘functionalist’ or ‘social constructivist’ are the terms used to describe Tomasello’s theory.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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-4: -Nurture is the acquisition of traits through experience and learning after we are conceived. We may not be born with a love for a particular type of music or religious affiliation, but through environmental factors, we could develop an affinity for subsects of either.

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