Child Language) Is CDS Good For Development Flashcards
Yes. 3
Clarke stewart - children whose mothers talk more have larger vocabularies
Snow - speech directed at children was shown to provide clear, simplified entry point into complexities of language learning
Cambridge uni- children rather be spoken to in cds as brain synchronises with rhythmic nature of utterances
No. 2
Chomsky - cds is damaging
Pinker - cds performed by only small number of mc families showing it’s not necessary as not universally available
Nature. 2
Chomsky
Piaget
Nurture. 5
Skinner Bruner Vygotsky Tomasello Lenneberg
Chomsky. 4
Nativist
All humans born with innate language learning capacity
Known for creating idea of LAD
Human brain has naturally programmed ability to learn language
Chomskys theory is in response to _ theory
Skinners
What justifies LAD
Virtuous errors
Criticisms of Chomsky . 2
LAD Doesn’t place enough importance on role of caregiver in influencing language
No practical experiments to prove his theory
Piaget. 3
Cognitive theorists
Developing cognitive understanding built on interaction between child and things that can be observed, touched and manipulated eg use of words like ‘bigger’ depends on child’s understanding of concepts they represent
Children wouldn’t develop until stages of cognitive development had been reached
Piaget stages of development. 4
Sensorimotor
Pre operational
Concrete operational
Formal operational
Sensorimotor stage. 3
0-2 years
Child is egocentric
Child understands object permanence
Pre operational stage. 2
2-6 years
Develops imaginative focus
Concrete operational stage. 3
6/7-11/12 years
Stops being egocentric
Understands others pov
Formal operational stage. 2
11/12-16 years
More abstract thinking
Lenneberg. 2
Critical thinking hypothesis
Acquisition of normal language guaranteed up to 6
Skinner. 4
Eg
Behaviourist theory
Saw language as another form of learned behaviour
Children start with tabula rasa
Children learn through positive and negative reinforcement
Eg babbling
Criticisms of skinner
Over correcting children’s speech can have bad effect, as there’s some stages where children start to apply grammar, that they go through and learn naturally