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Main theory approaches language acquisition: (5)

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  1. Behaviourist theorists
  2. Social interactionists
  3. Cognitive theorists
  4. Nativist theorists
  5. Functional language theorists.
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Main theory approaches language acquisition:
Behaviourist

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a. Language developed through imitating other’s language and gaining positive and negative feedback from adults.
i. Not necessarily interaction as much as copying.
c. All learning is a result of conditioning.

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Main theory approaches language acquisition:
2. Social interactionists

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a. Language is developed through interacting with others.

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Main theory approaches language acquisition:
3. Cognitive theorists

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a. Language will grow when children’s ideas about the world develop.
b. Only when they understand time, they can talk about it.

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Main theory approaches language acquisition:
4. Nativist theorists

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a. Language is innate; we are pre-programmed to acquire it.

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Main theory approaches language acquisition:
5. Functional language theories suggest that.

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a. Language acquisition is driven by function and need.
b. As our needs grow our language develops as we need to speak about/for new needs.

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Stages that children aquire language at: (5)

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Pre Verbal
Holophrastic
Two word
Telegraphic
Post Telegraphic

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Stages: (5)
Pre Verbal(2/3)

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This stage includes the vegetative, cooing, babbling and the proto-word stage. Children are experimenting with phonemes and not communicating in words.

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Stages: (5)
Holophrastic

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Children make one word utterances – ‘holophrases’.

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Stages: (5)
Two word

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Children begin to put words together in two word sentences- ‘mummy go!’ ‘milk please!’ ‘teddy sit!’

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Stages: (5)
Telegraphic

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Children start talking in sentences longer than two words, but they will still be grammatically incomplete. Words will be missed out but meaning will still usually be clear. Like writing a ‘telegraph’ where you were charged by the word, or a Tweet in a modern context!

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Stages: (5)
Post Telegraphic

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Children form full sentences and usually include all of the necessary words to make them grammatically complete. There will still be errors and there is still much development to come.​

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Around what time does this normally happen:
-Pre Verbal

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0-12 months

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13
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Around what time does this normally happen:
-Holophrastic

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12-18 months

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Around what time does this normally happen:
-Two word

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18-24 months

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15
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Around what time does this normally happen:
-Telegraphic

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2-3 years

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Around what time does this normally happen:
-Post Telegraphic

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3+ years