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Nativist

- Child's ability to acquire language = inbuilt


- Chomsky (1965)

Noam Chomsky (nativist)

- Believes learning takes place through an innate brain mechanism


- Pre-programmed with the ability to acquire grammatical structures


- Language Acquisition Devices (LADs)


- Human languages share similarities, which he describes as universal grammar

Cognitive

- Focuses on the importance of mental processes


- Piaget

Piaget (Cognitive)

- Stated that a child needs to have developed certain mental abilities before he or she can acquire particular aspects of language


- A young child cannot mentally process the concept that something can exist outside their immediate surroundings = egocentric


- By 18 months - children realise that things have object permanence (can exist all the time without being seen)


- Child can then understand more abstract concepts like past, present and future

Opposing Cognitive Theory

- Doesn't explain how some people with learning difficulties are still linguistically fluent


- Suggests that cognitive development and language development aren't as closely linked as the Cognitive theory suggests

Behaviourist Theory

- Children learn through imitation and reinforcement from parents


- Skinner (1957)

Opposing Behaviourist Theory

- Doesn't explain grammar: can form sentences they've never heard


- Doesn't explain overgeneralisation as adults don't make these mistakes usually

Interactive Theory

- Caregiver's support child's linguistic development in social situations


- Bruner (1983)

Bruner (interactive)

- There are clear patterns of interaction in everyday life such as meal time, bath time and when playing


- Caregiver points things out and asks questions


- Then the child gradually takes a more active part in social situations