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First Language Acquisition Theories Review
Children have a remarkable ability to communicate
Small babies:
children babble and coo and cry and vocally and nonvocally
send messages and receive messages.
End of first year:
children start to imitate words and speech sounds and about
this time use their first words.
3 years:
Children can comprehend an incredible quantity of linguistic input,
they chatter nonstop
School age:
Children start to internalize increasingly complex structures,
expand their vocabulary
Behavioristic Position
Language is a fundamental part of total human behavior
A behaviorist might consider effective language behavior to be the production
of correct responses to stimuli.
The behaviorist view imitation and practice as primary processes in language
development.
Nativist Position
Children are born with a special ability to discover for themselves the
underlying rules of a language system.
The term nativist is derived from the fundamental assertion that language
acquisition is innately determined, that we are born with a genetic capacity
Functional Position
Researchers began to see that language was one manifestation of the cognitive
and affective ability to deal with the world, with others, and with the self
the generative rules that were proposed under the nativistic framework were abstract, formal, explicit, and quite logical, yet they dealt
specifically with the forms of language and not with the deeper functional
levels of meaning constructed from social interaction
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