Language Geniuses
While there is no universally accepted definition of the language, it is considered as a method of communication which consists of abstract symbols that are governed by rules. Language contains subsystems such as semantics, syntax, phonology, pragmatics and morphology. As a means of communication, human babies learn languages spoken around them in a manner that suggests they are language geniuses. Babies also are claimed to have a natural ability to acquire and master languages more than adults because of certain predisposing factors that are not found in adults.
Noam Chomsky’s theory of language states that children are born with a “language acquisition device” that helps them encode the important principles of every language and also the grammatical structures of it in their brains. Noam Chomsky argues that children do not learn language by imitating what they hear only for what they hear is highly irregular. The adult’s …show more content…
Bilingualism is the ability to use at least two languages proficiently with equal fluency while multilingualism is the capability of an individual speaker or a group of speakers to use two or more languages (Westly 38). Multilingual speakers are more than monolingual people in the world today, and that is based on the access to information, internet, and interaction with other language speakers. Multilingualism and bilingualism are classified into two major categories. These include age that has early learners and late learner’s classification. There is classification by the skill that ranges on a continuum between passive bilingual and unilingual speakers. The passive bilinguals are native speakers who can understand but not speak another language while dominant bilingual has more proficiency in one of the languages. Balanced bilingual is less or more equally proficient in the two languages but not a native speaker while unilingual speak only one
While there is no universally accepted definition of the language, it is considered as a method of communication which consists of abstract symbols that are governed by rules. Language contains subsystems such as semantics, syntax, phonology, pragmatics and morphology. As a means of communication, human babies learn languages spoken around them in a manner that suggests they are language geniuses. Babies also are claimed to have a natural ability to acquire and master languages more than adults because of certain predisposing factors that are not found in adults.
Noam Chomsky’s theory of language states that children are born with a “language acquisition device” that helps them encode the important principles of every language and also the grammatical structures of it in their brains. Noam Chomsky argues that children do not learn language by imitating what they hear only for what they hear is highly irregular. The adult’s …show more content…
Bilingualism is the ability to use at least two languages proficiently with equal fluency while multilingualism is the capability of an individual speaker or a group of speakers to use two or more languages (Westly 38). Multilingual speakers are more than monolingual people in the world today, and that is based on the access to information, internet, and interaction with other language speakers. Multilingualism and bilingualism are classified into two major categories. These include age that has early learners and late learner’s classification. There is classification by the skill that ranges on a continuum between passive bilingual and unilingual speakers. The passive bilinguals are native speakers who can understand but not speak another language while dominant bilingual has more proficiency in one of the languages. Balanced bilingual is less or more equally proficient in the two languages but not a native speaker while unilingual speak only one