CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

LANGUAGE ACQUISITION THEORIES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
This theory claims that children’s minds are not blank slates
A
Nativism
B
Behaviourism
C
Cognitive
D
Interactionism
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Nativist theorists argue that children are born with an innate ability to organize laws of language, which enables children to easily learn a native language. They believe that children have language-specific abilities that assist them as they work towards mastering a language.

Detailed explanation-2: -Answer and Explanation: No one person can be credited with disproving some aspects of the blank slate theory.

Detailed explanation-3: -For example, no child will say “Biscuit mummy”, instead the child will say “Mummy, biscuit”. The reason is thus, when a child starts to put two words together, the child has already mastered the basic rules of syntax. And even when the child makes an erroneous sentence, he applies them correctly.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the field of psychology, nativism is the view that certain skills or abilities are “native” or hard-wired into the brain at birth.

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