child language theorists

Question 1

what are the 5 main theorists

Answer 1

Behaviourist approach-Skinner
Nativist approach-Chomsky
Interactionist approach-Vygotsky,Bruner
Contructionist approach- Ibbotson
Cognitive-Piaget

Question 2

Nature debate

Answer 2

Chomsky(1959)
argues behaviourism doesn’t explain children’s language development, bcz the language they hear is not useful (poverty of stimulus) and they can produce completely new utterances never heard before -Language is innate to all humans

Question 3

Behaviourism (nurture)

Answer 3

B.F.Skinner (1957) argues a child’s language was same as any other conditioned behaviour
Children hear language and are positively reinforced by their environment (encouragement and praise)
or neg reinforced (correction/punishment)
selective reinforcement conditions child’s words, phrases and utterances towards full adult speech through repetition