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: -Noam Chomsky claims that children are biologically programmed for language and that language develops in the child in just the same way as other biological functions develop.

Detailed explanation-3: -B.F Skinner believed that children learn language through operant conditioning. Language is learned through imitation and reinforcement. Reinforcement is something that enhances the strength of the response and prompts repetitions of the behavior that preceded reinforcement.

Detailed explanation-4: -Skinner and reinforcement Learning theorist, B. F. Skinner, suggests that language develops through the use of reinforcement. Sounds, words, gestures and phrases are encouraged by following the behavior with words of praise or treats or anything that increases the likelihood that the behavior will be repeated.