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THEORIES OF FIRST LANGUAGE ACQUISITION (Functional Approach (M.A.K…
THEORIES OF FIRST LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
Behaviouristic Approach
BF. Skinner, Leonard Bloom, Charles Fries.
Children learn language through stimulus, response and reinforcement
Nativist Approach
Noam Chomsky, Eric Lennenberg, Stepen Krashen
Language acquisition is an innate capability
Biological Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
distinguish speech speech sounds
organize linguistic data into various classes
knowledge that only certain linguistic system is possible, other kinds are not
engage in constant evaluation of developing linguistic system
construct simplest possible system out of the available linguistic input
Universal Grammar (UG)
Functional Approach
M.A.K Halliday, Dell Hymes, Howard Gardner
Cognition and language development
Social interaction and language development
Caregivers play a critical roles in adjusting language to facilitate the use of innate capacities for language acquisition
Interactionist