Encouragement of Child Language Acquisition Essay

Language acquisition is a process that humans can acquire the ability of perceive and comprehend language, as well as produce the words in order to communicate. Theorists have developed different theories to explain language acquisition. Each of them has his own view. However, Chomsky had a different view on acquisition of language, as he believed language acquisition is inborn which means that the language comes from the parents and its inherited. The theorist believes children have innate ability that enable them learn language. Children can only acquire language because they are born with the predisposition to learn language. He believes that specific linguistic structures, which children utilize so correctly, should be already imprinted on their mind. Each child has a language acquisition device (LAD). The concept of LAD is mental capacity that enables children to acquire and produce language, which is useful in learning languages. The device encodes the main principles of a language and the grammatical structures into the brain. Then children learn new vocabulary and use the syntactic structures from the language acquisition device to construct sentences. The theorist believes children cannot learn a language via imitation only as the language spoken by those around them is complex. Therefore, the capacity to learn languages exists with or without the influence of the environment. He claimed language is complex, with unlimited mixture of…

turn-taking. • It is important to engage infants in conversation-like turn-taking because as infants interact with those around them, they begin to participate in dialogic turn taking and this contributes to children’s awareness of how language used for different purposes or intents in a specific contexts. This also establishes the patterns for future, more complex conversations and helps children develop the neural networks in the brain that contribute to language competencies. 2. When…

PERIOD IN SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING? WHICH ONE LEARNS BETTER AND QUICKER? ADULTS OR CHILDREN? PRESENTED BY ALMAKKI ALSABIRI ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ INTRODUCTION In the field of SLA there are a few speculations about how individuals take in a second language. At first, Behaviorism hypothesis, which sees learning as imitation,…

variations between one child and another in terms of cognitive development. In the following paper, I will be exploring the cultural phenomena of cognitive development in early childhood. In spite of the variations, it is evident in many countries that parenting has a vast influence on child cognition. Through parents, a child 's perception is shaped to adapt to their individualistic or collectivistic culture and it is reflected in language acquisition and parenting styles. In spite of the…

underdevelopment of her Broca’s and Werinicke’s area—the language centers of the pre-frontal cortex. The lack of stimulation in these speech centers caused irreparable damage. By the age of thirteen, Genie had no real capacity to learn language. This phenomena of severely decreased ability to learn something as someone ages is called a “critical period.” Something is expected to develop within this time and if it does not, it is significantly harder or even impossible to learn certain…

The impact of second language acquisition on individuals Second language acquisition, often defined as the process of an individual learning a second language in addition to a person’s first language. This could also be incorporated as learning a third, fourth or fifth language. (Gass and Selinker 2008,p7) The process is usually divided to 5 stages: preproduction, early production, speech emergence, intermediate fluency, and advanced fluency. (Haynes 2007 p29-35) The learning process requires…

The professionals in teaching languages have had an academic setting in the field of mother tongue and foreign languages, in their structure or form and at their contextual use. However, given the interinstitutional and international agreements, in itself the globalization, language teachers have been displaced into the backdrop. Now the native speakers (from other disciplines) are certified as a professional instructor of languages. On the one hand, they are supposed to manage the grammar form…

My First English Teacher Language learning is always strongly influenced by the teachers, because learners tend to imitate how our teachers perform and act when we are unfamiliar to something. At the time we were learning our mother language, teachers are our parents because they are the ones that we meet and communicate frequently when we were young. However, when we are engaging in learning another language, like while I was learning English, the first teachers could highly enlighten their…

Within education, teachers have any important job to educate young diverse students so that they are able to live productively in the adult world. English Language Learners have additional needs that teachers have to adhere in order for the students to effectively learn the English language as well as learn information imperative for survival in an English speaking country. It is essential that teachers employ various strategies to assist in the development of vocabulary within their curriculum.…

The United States, contrary to popular belief, does not have an official language. Although English is the de facto language of the United States, the Constitution makes "no reference to choice of a national language" (Heath, 1995, p.179). This tolerance of foreign languages, along with mass immigration, has enriched the linguistic diversity in the United States. Not surprisingly, this diversity has also made multilingual education an important component of American schooling—most American high…