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Compiled by : Maya F. Lina

QUOTE OF THE CASE

We are designed to walk…that we are thought that walk is impossible. And prety much the same is tue of language. Nobody is taught language. In fact, you can’t prevent the child to learning it.

Naom Chosky

ARE CHILDREN LEARN LANGUAGE COME FROM INSTRUCTION???

ARE THE CHILDREN CONSTRUCT THEIR LANGUAGE ACTIVELY??

ARE CHILDREN IMITATE FROM THE ADULTS??

HOW THE CHILDREN KNOW THEIR LANGUAGE IS WRONG OR NOT?

THE THEORY OF FIRST LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

Behavioristic PositionNativist PositionFunctional Position

 THE BEHAVIOURIST THEORY

AS A MATTER OF IMITATION AND HABIT FORMATION

Children continue to imitate and practice the words and sentences until they form habits of correct usage (Lightbown and Spada 1993:1).

BEHAVIOURIST THEORY

Individuals are born without built-in mental content and their knowledge comes from experience and perception(tabula rasa).

Assumes a learner is essentially passive, responding to environmental stimuli.

Behavior is shaped through positive reinforcement or negative reinforcement.

Consider effective language behavior to be the production of correct responses to stimuli. If a particular response is reinforced, it then becomes habitual, or conditioned.

NATIVIST THEORY

NATIVIST THEORY

We have an innate predisposition to learn language, and learning is in our genetics.

According to Chomsky, this innate knowledge is embodied in a ¨little black box¨ of sorts, a language acquisition device (LAD).

All human beings are genetically equipped with the ability that enables them to acquire language. (a system of universal linguistic rules or Universal Grammar)

FUNCTIONAL APPROACH

Cognition and Language Development

Bloom found three possible underlying relationships: agent-action, agent-object, and possessor-possessed.

In addition, he concluded that children learn underlying structures, not superficial word order.

Piaget insisted that what children learn about language is determined by what they already know about the world.

Dan Slobin demonstrated that semantic learning depends on cognitive development.

Social Interaction and Language Development

Social constructivist emphasized on the function of language in discourse.

Discourse has a special meaning in that language is used for interactive communication.

FUNCTIONAL APPROACH

CONCLUSON

WE AREN’T PERFECT AT ALL… ALWAYS NEED YOUR CRITICTS

Thank you……