main linguists

Question 1

Behaviourist

Answer 1

• Behaviourism- the idea that we are conditioned in how we act, through positive and negative reinforcement
• Skinner:tested rats and pidgeons rewarding them for desirable actions starved pidgeons learned that pressing a red button with their beaks garnered food through positive reinforcement
• Skinner relates this to humans and argues that our actions are gained through postive reinforcement from parents too.

Question 2

Innateness

Answer 2

• hypothesis which holds that humans are born with at least some knowledge of linguistic structure
• Chomsky believes we have a LAD which are innate components for understanding language which activates when we are exposed to language
• Parents don’t speak perfect grammatical sentences, child learns a lot more language then exposed to
• virtuous errors highlight that language development is taking place, highlight a child has a general understanding of language rules

Question 3

Cognitivism

Answer 3

• need understanding of concepts for language to fully develop
• Piaget argues language and intellect grow in tandem, more understanding of concepts benefits language growth
• up until 11 we are heternomous, at 11 go to formal operation stage
• formal operation stage:form abstract reasoning, engage in debates and moral/ethical thoughts

Question 4

Bruner

Answer 4

• CDS is specifically adapted to support CLA
• LASS very helpful as allows framing and scaffolding
• framing: controlling the agenda of a conversation which allows the child to fill in the blanks
• scaffolding:the support and modelling given by children to parents