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Who are the main theorists of child language acquisition? - Skinner Chomsky Bruner Piaget Vygotsky Tomaselli Deb Roy What is Skinner's theory? - The behaviorist approach - positive and nega ... tive reinforcement conditions children into learning the correct language through imitation and experience. More likely to repeat a behavior if they are rewarded for it and visa versa. What is Chomsky's theory? - The nativist approach - language is innate and the LAD (language acquisition device) is the hypothetical brain mechanism which gives us a naturally programmed ability to learn language What is Bruner's theory? - Social Interaction approach - Highlights the importance of interaction with caregivers and came up with the need of a LASS to generate input What is Piaget's theory? - Cognitive approach - suggested that children need to understand key concepts before they can acquire the language that goes with it. They do this through experience, observations and learning about the world which lets them build up knowledge. What is Vygotsky's theory? - The importance of having a MKO (more knowledgeable other) who can direct a child to move within the ZPD (zone of proximal development) What is Tomaselli’s theory? - Critiques Chomsky's theory and proposed a functional theory of language development (sometimes called the social-pragmatic approach) in which children learn linguistic structures through intention What did Deb Roy do? - The speech home project. He set up cameras and recorded the home life of his son for the first year of his life, collecting data of how he learned to speak What are the stages of language acquisition? - Pre-verbal One-w [Show More]

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