GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION THEORIES
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Language learners need to be exposed to comprehensible input that is at a slightly higher level of difficulty than they can currently produce in the target language.
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Language learners need a “silent period” to develop their receptive language skills in a target language before they can produce meaningful discourse.
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Language learners acquirea target language over time by developing an interlanguage that increasingly resembles the target language.
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Language learners need to have meaningful opportunities to negotiate meaning with others and to construct comprehensible output in the target language.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The interactionist/social theory proposes that language exists for the purpose of communication and can only be learned in the context of interaction with adults and other children. It stresses the importance of the environment and culture in which the language is being learned.
Detailed explanation-2: -The interactionist approach (sociocultural theory) combines ideas from sociology and biology to explain how language is developed. According to this theory, children learn language out of a desire to communicate with the world around them. Language emerges from, and is dependent upon, social interaction.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Cognitive Theory The Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget placed acquisition of language within the context of a child’s mental or cognitive development.