English CLA

Question 1

Chomsky

Answer 1

Nativism:
Everyone is born with the LAD (Language Acquisition Device) that helps them learn language, and accounts for the order in which children learn structures, and the mistakes they make as they learn.

Question 2

B.F Skinner

Answer 2

Behaviorism:
believed children learned by copying parents’ speech and through positive reinforcement (CLA)

Question 3

Jean Berko

Answer 3

Wug Test:
The Wug Test was the first experimental proof that young children have extracted generalizable rules from the language around them, rather than simply memorizing words that they have heard

Question 4

David Crystal

Answer 4

Trial and Error:
children learn in amorphous stages by trial and error to successfully learn the language
Language is adopted and adapted

Question 5

Grice

Answer 5

Maxims:
Help lead an effective conversation with rational communication.
-Be Truthful
-Quantity. Provide as much information as required. Do not provide more information than is required
-Relation Be relevant.
-Manner Avoid ambiguity.

Question 6

Halliday

Answer 6

Instrumental function - language that is used to fulfil a need, such as to obtain food, drink or comfort. This typically includes concrete nouns.

Regulatory function - language that is used to influence the behaviour of others including persuading, commanding or requesting.

Interactional function - language that is used to develop relationships and ease interaction. This could include phrases like “I love you mummy” or “Thank you”.

Personal function - language that expresses personal opinions, attitudes and feelings including a speaker’s identity.

Representational/Informative function- language that is used to relay or request information.

Heuristic function - language that is used to explore, learn and discover. This could include questions or a running commentary of a child’s actions.

Imaginative function - the use of language to tell stories and create imaginary constructs. This typically accompanies play or leisure activities.

Question 7

Katherine Nelson

Answer 7

She thinks that thought procede language and that children learn words that fit into the context of a scene.
Children generalize objects with context#
Children learn nouns first.

Question 8

Piaget

Answer 8

Cognitive Development
Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development suggests that intelligence changes as children grow. A child’s cognitive development is not just about acquiring knowledge, the child has to develop or construct a mental model of the world.

Question 9

Vygotsky

Answer 9

Social Development
cognitive abilities are socially guided and constructed. As such, culture serves as a mediator for the formation and development of specific abilities, such as learning, memory, attention, and problem solving.

Question 10

Grice

Answer 10

Maxims, the rules a conversation should follow for it to be successful.

quality
quantity,
relevance
manner