2.2.3 Challenging Interactionism

Question 1

What do De Villiers and De De Villiers state?

Answer 1

Rare for caregivers to give direct feedback about correctness of their language, so something must be more innate

Question 2

Myzor believes …

Answer 2

CDS helps to aid social development but doesn’t help linguistic development

Question 3

What did Cliff Pye research

Answer 3

How different cultures learn language

Question 4

What did Cliff Pye’s research detail

Answer 4

Children around the world acquired language at roughly the same time and not all cultures used CDS

Question 5

Whose work did Bruner take issue with, and what did he do about it

Answer 5

Bruners work

1959, published paper criticising Bruner’s theory on number of flaws

Question 6

Chomsky questions…

Answer 6

How children produce utterances that are grammatically non standard to the point where no caregiver would have said them

Question 7

Theorists who challenged interactionism. 4

Answer 7

Cliff Pye
Myzor
Chomsky
De Villiers and De Villiers