CLA Theorists

Question 1

Bruner

Answer 1

LASS
Need for quality input by gave giver
Interactionalist

Question 2

Skinner

Answer 2

Behaviourist

Operant conditioning - positive and negative reinforcement

Question 3

Piaget

Answer 3

States of cognitive development
0-2 sensorimotor
2-7 preoperational (begin to think symbolically and question the world around them)

Question 4

Catherine Garvey

Answer 4

Play 1977

Play is important as it develops what Halliday coins heuristic and imaginative language

Question 5

Catherine Snow

Answer 5

CDS and motherese

Question 6

Eve

Answer 6

Over and under extension

Question 7

Chomsky

Answer 7

Nativist
LAD 60’s
Subject verb object is proof of LAD

Question 8

Lenneburg

Answer 8

Critical period

Up to age 5

Question 9

Addyman

Answer 9

Babies prefer motherese

Question 10

Joos

Answer 10

Formality levels
Formal
Consultative
Casual

Question 11

Berko

Answer 11

Wug test

76% identified that plural of wug was wugs

Question 12

Bellugi

Answer 12

Pronoun development
Use name as oppose to pronoun
Understand but can’t use
Can use

Question 13

Kalui tribe case study

Answer 13

1984

Proof that CDS is not needed

Question 14

Brown

Answer 14

MLU
28-36 months - 2.25
36-42 months - 2.75

Question 15

Halliday

Answer 15

Functions of child’s language

Question 16

Sinclair and Coulthard

Answer 16

IRF

1975

Question 17

Tomasello

Answer 17

Usage based model 2003

Language must be used to be acquired

Question 18

Vygotsky

Answer 18

Scaffolding
70’s
Importance of more knowledgeable other
Zone of proximal development

Question 19

Bard and Sachs

Answer 19

Jim

Deaf kid