Explain The Nativist Perspective

• The Nativist perspective emphasizes inborn or innate human capabilities as being responsible for language development. This perspective encourages teacher to use a curriculum that will provide extensive opportunities for children to explore language and engage in hypothesis testing of their developing knowledge of language. Teachers can provide opportunities for children to draw and write, as this encourages children to communicate and create meaning based on their ideas of how language works.

• Three conditions identified by Cambourne that provide a context that facilitate oral language development are immersion, demonstration, and engagement. Immersion can be described as the surrounding language around children as it is used by others