CLA

CLA

1. Skinner

   • Behaviourist theory
   • Babies learn through imitation
   • Children use the specialist lexicon to make speech easier to learn
     • woof woof
   • parents need to use positive and negative enforcements to help children learn
     • Good = reward/praise
     • Bad = correction
   • Did his research on rats and pigeons language is a form of learnt behaviour

2. Pinker

   • Learn a great deal from computing machines about intelligence
   • Supports Chomskys theory of "children r born to talk"
   • Thinks brain has different functions and sections
   • Agrees with the LAD concept

3. Chomsky

   • Nativist theory
   • Children are born to speak
   • The language spoken around children is often irregular
   • Syntax is usually in place when speech is developing for a very early age
   • Mistake e.g I drew show we are not learning through imitation alone
   • LAD devices are within us
   • We are programmed to gain knowledge

4. Piaget

   • The cognitive theory
   • Language comes with understanding
     • Children need to understand concepts before they can use them correctly
   • Different social atmospheres expand a child knowledge
     • The more a child experiences the richer their vocab will become
   • each child matures in their own time
   • Over and under extension proves his theory
     • Children use words without full understanding

5. Vygotsky

   • Interactionist theory
   • Learning begins at birth and will never end
   • Social interaction leads to an increase in knowledge
   • Speaking to older people will help children develop
   • Language learning is influenced by the desire of children to communicate with others

6. Bruner

   • Social integrationist theory
   • Children acquire language through imitation
     • Parents use special language when talking to their children
   • Parents use dimutives
     • Dog - doggie
   • Parents use exaggerated facial expressions and words
   • Bruner imposed three models of representation
     • Enactive representation
     • Iconic representation
     • Symbolic representation