theorists Flashcards
Chomsky- innate
LAD device, believed children have a pre-programmed way of leaning in which grammatical features are possible- could be proven wrong by genie or lennerberg
vygotsky- input
learn through the interaction of others
- mko don’t have to be caregivers can be other children
-provides them with interlectual scaffolding
-assess how internal mediators are crucial such as pretend play
Piaget- input
cannot learn a word until they understand it cognitively
-comprehension precedes production
Bruner- input
social creatures
-children learn through their social environment
-promotes ideas of critical period for language development- genie
Skinner- input
language acquired solely by observing and imitating the behaviour of others
-positive and negative reinforcement helps language development- however could be argued that it could it discourges children language
lennerberg
there LAD must have input within a limited time- frame in order to process language correctly
Chomsky and virtuous erros
beloved that virtuous errors were a logical by-product of and proved the existence of an LAD.
Catherine snow
child directed speech
-talking more slowly
-leaving longer gaps between words
-using a higher and wider pitch range
-high degree of repetition
use of personal names instead of pronouns
-supportive language
-lots of features and warm body language
-use of expansion
use of recasting
Berko and Brown- CDS
‘fis’ phenominon
showing that babies do not hear themselves in the same way that they hear others and no amount of correction will change this
pragmatic awareness
this is the use of things such as fillers and turn taking
patrisha kuhl- critical period
babies have the ability to learn any language in the first 1 year of life.
-demonstrates how early exposure to language alters the brain. studies on bilingual children
-babies don’t pay attention to audio recordings or video recordings, to learn they need to hear this from a live person
stimulus of language
-being read to by a more knowledgable other
- pretend playing- vygotsky
-cultural capital- days out
-interactions with other children- nursery, can be classes as a more knowledgeable other
