Child Language Acquisition: Main theorists
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- Child language Acquisition
- Behaviourism
- Skinner
- Language is acquired by imitating others
- Positive and negative reinforcement
- Skinner
- Nativism
- Chomsky
- Humans are born with a Language Acquisition Device, which is pre-programmed with all grammatical features.
- Lenneberg
- The LAD has a limited time frame.
- As evidenced by Genie
- The LAD has a limited time frame.
- Chomsky
- Interactionist theory
- Bruner
- Humans learn from their social environment
- Vygotsky
- Zone of proximal development
- Children learn with a skilled partner who acts as an intellectual scaffolding
- Zone of proximal development
- Bruner
- Cognitive Theory
- Piaget
- A child has to understand the concept behind lexemes to learn them
- Children grow out of egocentric speech
- Piaget
- Behaviourism
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