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Theories of Language Acquisition and Language Development - Coggle Diagram
Theories of Language Acquisition and Language Development
Social Interaction
Nature vs nurture
Some people argue that nature is how a baby learns language through their environment while others argue that a baby learns language through their parents with nurture.
Vygotsky
Theory that social interaction is needed in order to learn language.
Created a sociocultural model for human development.
Shows how a child's environment affects them with the way they behave (by watching other people). Children learn best when they have people around them to help.
Is a foundation of constructivism.
3 major themes: Social interaction, The More Knowledgeable Other, and The Zone of Proximal Development
APA Citation:
Cooter, R. B., & Reutzel, D. R. (2004). Teaching children to read: Putting the pieces
together. Upper Sadle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc.
Gillet, J. W., & Temple, C., Crawford, A. N. (2004). Understanding reading problems:
Assessment and instruction. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
Nativist
Children show language awareness before they are even taught.
This can be from them listening to other people talking, but it believed that they already have an understanding of how words work even if they do not fully understand them at first.
Learning how sounds, words, and sentences are used.
The use of these and building on vocabulary does not happen for every child at the same time. All children go through this at different rates (learning how to talk, when they say first words, etc.)
APA Citation: Stanborough, Rebecca. (2019, June 14) Born This Way: Chomsky’s Theory Explains Why We’re So Good at Acquiring Language. Retrieved from
https://www.healthline.com/health/childrens-health/chomsky-theory
Chomsky
The belief that language has common elements.
Chomsky argued how is grammar programed in someones brain.
Behaviorist
Skinnerian behaviorism
A child's learning environment and behavior plays a huge role in this.
Created to find out why children have reading problems.
Created by Skinner
Learning comes from repeating of information.
Bottom-up/top down
Top down theory focuses on word recognition to help teach children.
Bottom-up helps teach children how to read.
APA Format: Alexander, Patricia and Fox, Emily. (2004). A Historical Perspective on Reading Research and Practice. ResearchGate.34-37.
By: Robin Neal