CLA Usage-Based Theorists

Question 1

Tomasello (2003)

Usage based

Answer 1

• Proposed a focus on the inter-connectedness of language development with intentional reading and pattern finding.

Question 2

Ibbotson (2012)

Usage based

Answer 2

• Believed that instead of picking up single words and then learning to combine them according to a pre-programmed set of abstract grammatical rules, children pick up constructions which they are then able to adapt.