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Nature vs Nurture # (Advantages (Nuture (Environment) (Empiricism) 1.…
Definition
What is Nature?a)Human behavior is instinctive and simply ones "nature.( Darwin, 1859). In the context of the nature vs. nurture debate, “nature” refers to biological/genetic predispositions’ impact on human traits.
What is Nurture?Nurture is most commonly defined as environment, culture, and experience. Behavior is not instinctive but learned.
Disadvantages
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Young learners need input to give them more skills than grammar. For example: pragmatic understanding
Young learners may be confused as L1 (old habits) might intefere with the acquisition of L2 (new habits)
Young learners who have been deprived of social contact cannot achieve complete communicative competence
Advantages
Nuture (Environment) (Empiricism) 1. Language learn by extracting all the linguistic information from the environment (behaviorism) 2. It can draw sufficient linguistic information from the well-structured environment. 3. Learned by association and thus, it claim language acquisition as the associative process. 4. Emphasis on the influence of usage and experience in language acquisition.
Nature (Genes) (Nativists/Innatist) 1.Innate is something which is already there in mind since birth. 2.Deeply rooted in human brain. 3. Genetically coded among humans since birth. 4. According to Chomsky children are born with a "Language Acquisation Device (LAD)" It allows child to pick up the underlying grammatical principles of the language concerned.
Environmental variables
Environmental Factors
- Immediate factors; family, friends, neighbours, Socioeconomic Status
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- Societal Contexts;
school system
- Macro factors;
politics, education system
Relation to...
BF Skinner (Behaviorism)
”asserts that infant can acquire information from well structured environment”
- Conditioning
- Imitation
- Reinforcement
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Definition
refers to all the environmental variables that impact who we are, including our early childhood experiences, how we were raised, our social relationships and our surrounding culture
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