Language Acquisition Theorists Flashcards
Skinner
Behaviourism - children learn through positive and negative reinforcement
Chomsky
Innatism - LAD genetic element built in to learn language
Piaget
Cognitivism - language becomes more complex when they are ready for it
Bruner
Social interactionist - scaffolding by simplifying language, higher picth, recasting (LASS)
Berkos wugs
Seen children’s ability to apply correct grammatical structure to words they don’t know.
Shown a fictional character called a wug, then shown 2. The children then said “two wigs”
Halliday - instrumental
functionalism
Satisfy personal needs “I want”
Halliday - regulatory
functionalism
Control behaviour “do as I tell you”
Halliday - interactional
functionalism
To communicate “me” “you” “ hello”
Halliday - personal
functionalism
Express self “here I come”
Halliday - heuristic
functionalism
Find out info “tell me why”
Halliday - Imaginative
functionalism
Creates new worlds/stories “let’s pretend”
Halliday - informative/representational
functionalism
Communicate info/expression “I’ve got something to tell you”
Vygotsky
Cognitivism - people can only think what their language allows them too (ZPD)
