Skinner - Correct Answerbehavourism - learn from experience and feedback.
keeps happening until automatic
Chomsky - Correct Answera baby is born with universal grammar, hears examples
of native language, helps it to make hypotheses about incoming language. LAD
Piaget - Correct Answercognitivist, development of thinking. PIES. a child must
understand concepts before they can use language to describe it
Bruner - Correct Answerlanguage is transactional in society, children learn
language because it is necessary to get things done. LASS. Parental support
system assists language through gaining attention, query, label and feedack
Lenneburg - Correct AnswerCritical theory hypothesis, expands on Chomsky. If
language is not learned before puberty, language will not develop/very
difficult/not successful. Brain is malleable until then.
Vygotsky - Correct Answerscaffolding. children learn through observation,
participation and interpretation which develops their semiotics. listening and
talking to themselves (private and public speech) are important for development.
Pinker - Correct Answerevolution theorist, human brain has evolved to allow us to
learn language. capacity for language rules and representation
Berko-Gleason - Correct AnswerWug test showed that they learn by hearing
patterns rather then imitating others - must have implicit knowledge of basic
morphological modifications such as -ed endings
Piaget's Sensorimotor stage - Correct Answerbirth to 2 year old. The infant builds
an understanding of himself or herself and reality. Able to differentiate between
itself and other objects. Learning takes place via assimilation and accommodation.
, Piaget's Preoperational Stage - Correct Answer2-7 years. Is not yet able to
conceptualize abstractly and needs concrete physical situations. Objects are
classified in simple ways, especially by important features.
Piaget's Concrete Operations Stage - Correct Answer7-11 years. As physical
experience accumulates, accomodation is increased. The child begins to think
abstractly and conceptualize, creating logical structures that explain his or her
physical experiences.
Piaget's Formal Operations Stage - Correct Answer11-15 years. The person no
longer requires concrete objects to make rational judgements. He or she is
capable of deductive and hypothetical reasoning. His or her ability for abstract
thinking is very similar to an adult.
Crystal Stage 1 - Correct AnswerChildren say things for three purposes: To get
something they want, to get someone's attention, to draw attention to something
Crystal Stage 2 - Correct AnswerChildren usually ask questions, "where" questions
come first.
Crystal Stage 3 - Correct AnswerChildren would be asking lots of different
questions but often signalling that they are questions with intonation alone.
Crystal Stage 4 - Correct AnswerChildren use increasingly complex sentence
structures.
Crystal Stage 5 - Correct AnswerChildren use language to do all the things that
they need it for-give information, ask and answer questions, request directly and
indirectly, suggest, offer, state and express.
Halliday's language functions - Correct AnswerInstrumental, regulatory,
interactional, personal, informative, heuristic, imaginative
Dore's infant language functions - Correct AnswerLabelling, repeating, answering,
requesting action, calling, greeting, protesting, practising
Holophrastic stage - Correct AnswerOne word utterances