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Language Theories - Coggle Diagram
Language Theories
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Socio-cultral Theory
Lev Vygotsky
- Neo-Vygotskyan views
- Influence of society and culture in one’s personal life
- How society is responsible for developing higher order functions (Cherry, 2019)
- Psycholinguistic
- Constructed through interaction, communication and collaboration
- New language is constructed through collaborative activities
(Hugo et al., 2013)
- Zone of Proximal Development
(ZPD)
- The distance between a child’s actual development level and the level of potential development
- Place where learning takes place most effectively
- Includes all the knowledge and skills that one cannot yet understand or perform by themselves (Cherry, 2019)
(Hugo et al., 2013)
- One carries out tasks under the guidance of a more skilled individual
- Done through collaborative talk
- Process of supportive dialogue is needed and should provide successive steps
(Hugo et al., 2013)
- Scaffolding
(not a Vygotskyan concept)
Universal Grammar Theory
Noam Chomsky
- Principles that determine human language
- Aquired unconsciously
- Not the same as Universal Language (Nordquist, 2018)
(Hugo et al., 2013)
- Humans are born with a natural abilty to learn languages (EnglishClub, 2021)
- Strong linguistic influence in FAL aquisition
- Focuses on syntax
- Theory of different grammars (Nordquist, 2018)
- Exposure to a language is not enough
- The Environmnet determines which language will be used (EnglishClub, 2021)
(Hugo et al., 2013)
- Innate system of categories, operations, and principles
- Shared by all human languages
(Nordquist, 2018)
- Words can be classified into groups such as noun or verb
- Sentences follow a particular structure
(Nordquist, 2018)
