GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION THEORIES
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Question
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Skinner’s behaviourist theory
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Chomsky’s innate theory
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Bruner’s interactionist theory
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the wug test
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Detailed explanation-1: -Input or Interactionist Theories Interactionists such as Jerome Bruner suggest that the language behaviour of adults when talking to children (known by several names by most easily referred to as child-directed speech or CDS) is specially adapted to support the acquisition process.
Detailed explanation-2: -Genie’s life is a wasteland.” Her silence and inability to use language made it difficult to assess her mental abilities, but on tests, she scored at about the level of a one-year-old. She soon began to make rapid progression in specific areas, quickly learning how to use the toilet and dress herself.
Detailed explanation-3: -She was removed to care when she was 13 years old. She was unable to speak. Her communications at first can be described as whispered grunts. Still over time, Genie has shown a remarkable ability to learn to speak and, particularly, to understand speech.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Interactionist approach claims that if our language ability develops out of a desire to communicate, then language is dependent upon whom we want to communicate with. This means the environment you grow up in will heavily affect how well and how quickly you learn to talk.