CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

LANGUAGE ACQUISITION THEORIES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which theorist hypothesized that children are born with a language acquisition device?
A
Piaget
B
Skinner
C
Vygotsky
D
Chomsky
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Perhaps the most well known nativist theorist, Noam Chomsky, hypothesized that children are born with a hard-wired language acquisition device (LAD) in their brain.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Language Acquisition Device, or LAD, is part of Chomsky’s acquisition hypothesis. The LAD is a system of principles that children are born with that helps them learn language, and accounts for the order in which children learn structures, and the mistakes they make as they learn.

Detailed explanation-3: -Q: What is Chomsky ‘s Hypothesis? Chomsky’s Hypothesis also called the Innateness Hypothesis, postulates that children are innately born with a sense of language and grammar.

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