Child Language Acquisition

<p>Personal</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>'The creature and creator of human society'</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Informative</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The influence of family and environment on a child's development</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They will naturally acquire their native language</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The complexity involved in comparing the strengths and weaknesses</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Considering the general principles outlined in this section</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To support or modify the theories discussed in the text</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The universal nature of child language acquisition</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Children tend to acquire language skills effortlessly and quickly.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Jim was not exposed to any language during his early years.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In early childhood</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Genie struggled to sequence words together.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ritchie disagrees with Chomsky's LAD theory and believes children learn language through experience.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Her ability to sequence words</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It aligns with the idea that there is an innate capacity for language development.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It must happen during early childhood.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Exposure to only television and lack of spoken language input.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ability to use language for situations outside immediate experience</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Formal Operational Stage</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Recognizing that quantity stays the same despite appearance changes</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By stating that social learning is crucial to cognitive development</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The gap between present skills and future achievements</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Through interaction with others and guidance</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To play a crucial role in guiding and supporting learning</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It promotes interaction and feedback between teachers and students</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Piaget believed language impacts cognitive development, while Vygotsky thought cognition influences language development.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Development of curricula for primary education based on his work.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Language automatically develops without stimulation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It involves extensive interactions with parents and caregivers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Two to five years old</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Both processes occur simultaneously and influence each other.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It goes through stages alongside cognitive development.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sensorimotor Stage</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>2 to 5 years old</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It becomes more complex as the child grows.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>LASS involves interaction with caregivers for language development.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Adults help bring out a child's innate abilities through interaction and naming.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Imaginative</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Heuristic</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Noam Chomsky</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Children correct themselves without adult intervention.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Through imitation and reinforcement.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Children understand more than they can speak.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Representational</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>'Imaginative' language.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>'Imaginative'</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The brain has an innate capacity to learn language.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Instrumental, Regulatory, Interactional, Personal, Representational, Heuristic, Imaginative</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Phatic communication helps in developing social relationships and interactions through talk that has no informative value.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Michael Halliday described language as 'the creature and creator of human society'.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) is related to the range of tasks that a child can perform with the help of a more knowledgeable other.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Eric Lenneberg proposed that the Language Acquisition Device (LAD) must be activated before puberty for native language acquisition to occur.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Jerome Bruner proposed that a limitation of Chomsky's LAD is that it does not account for the role of the environment and social interactions in language development.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Language used to explore the world and to learn and discover</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Through imitation and reinforcement</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Language Acquisition Device (LAD)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Children produce utterances they have never heard before and make errors that adults don't, showing they apply rules they understand.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Imaginative function</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chomsky's theory emphasizes innate language ability (LAD), while Skinner's theory focuses on imitation and reinforcement.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It shows that children apply rules they understand, such as verb inflections, even if not heard before.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Heuristic language</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Representational function</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By suggesting an innate capacity for language learning and grammar rules</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The quote emphasizes the importance of early childhood experiences and environment on a child's development, a key aspect highlighted in theories of language acquisition.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Studying regional language acquisition studies allows for cross-cultural comparison and modification of existing theories based on diverse linguistic environments.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The theories emphasize the fundamental importance of the family and social environment in a child's language development.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The complexity of theories makes it challenging to easily assess their relative strengths and weaknesses.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Child language acquisition is mentioned as a universal feature, suggesting that all children who can produce sounds will learn to speak their native language.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Lenneberg proposed a critical period for native language acquisition, suggesting that language learning is most effective during early childhood. This aligns with theories emphasizing the importance of early language exposure and development.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>LAD was not enough for Jim to learn to speak</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Inability to sequence words</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It must be activated during early and mid-childhood</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chomsky was 'brilliant but wrong'</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Genie's case supports the idea of a critical period for language acquisition</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Inability of LAD to facilitate speech in certain cases, importance of other variables</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>LAD</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Suggested age range from birth to puberty</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Due to other variables like innate ability and severe abuse</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Limitations in facilitating language development</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Conservation</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Initiation-Response-Feedback (IRF)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Determines their thinking and learning</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Learning</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Support of other people</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Guidance and support</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Formal Operational Stage</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Some of Piaget's theories</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Conservation</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It takes no account of the child's interaction with others, assumes language will develop automatically, and ignores the child's active role in language acquisition.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It is when the child's language learning is most intense, linking with the critical period for native language learning to flourish.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Piaget believed that cognitive development goes hand in hand with language development, where greater mental abilities lead to a better understanding of language and communication.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The stage where babies acquire knowledge through physical actions and sensations, developing object permanence and initiating language development.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They interact with the child, help in naming objects, engage in caretaker language, singing, reading, and playing games, providing a scaffold for language development.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The LASS emphasizes the importance of interaction with caregivers and the environment in supporting language development, while the LAD focuses on an innate language acquisition device.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Piaget believed that children construct an understanding of the world, and their language development progresses through stages of increasingly complex mental development.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The LASS theory shows that language does not develop automatically in the absence of language stimulation, contrary to the assumption of innate language development.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Piaget suggested that language develops quickly during the Preoperational Stage, where children think in more definite terms and associate language with an egocentric perception.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The LASS highlights the importance of intense language learning between ages two and five, aligning with the concept of a critical period for optimal native language acquisition.</p> Signup and view all the answers