CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Skill learning theory suggests that complex behaviours are made up of a hierarchy of skills. Complex skills such as how to take part in conversation or how to read a newspaper can be broken down into individual component skills.

Detailed explanation-2: -The linguistic learning theory of language development comes from the work of Noam Chomsky, an American linguist who is also regarded as the initiator of modern cognitive science. Chomsky’s linguistic theory is based on the idea that people are born with an innate ability to learn a language.

Detailed explanation-3: -Cognitive Theory and Language Acquisition Cognitivists believe that language emerges within the context of other general cognitive abilities like memory, attention and problem solving. Once language does emerge it is usually within a specific sequence of stages that is universal in most children (Goodluck, 1991).

Detailed explanation-4: -Universal grammar (UG), in modern linguistics, is the theory of the innate biological component of the language faculty, usually credited to Noam Chomsky. The basic postulate of UG is that there are innate constraints on what the grammar of a possible human language could be.

Detailed explanation-5: -According to the Behaviorist Theory, Skinner (1985) equated learning a language to verbal behavior. Therefore, he believes that language acquisition like any other behavior can be observed, rather than trying to explain the mental systems underlying these types of behaviors.