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MTTC ESL STUDY SET 1st stage of first-language aquisition ANSWER- between 6-8 months babbling stage child makes repetitive patterns of sound with mouth 2nd stage of first-language aquisition ANSWER- one-word stage 9-18 months child makes basic word stems and single open-class words 3rd stage of first-language aquisition ANSWER- two-word stage 18-24 months child begins making miniature sentences with simple semantic relations 4th stage of first-language aquisition ANSWER- early telegraph stage (multiword/morpheme stage) 24-30 months child begins to express sentence structures with lexical rather than functional or grammatical morphemes 5th stage of first-language aquisition ANSWER- later multiword stage 30+ months characteristic grammatical or functional structures of the primary language emerge and are incorporated Behavioralist Model ANSWER- B.F Skinner -individuals learn language as direct response to stimuli -patterns of language produce certain activities in external world and individual develops response to those stimuli -problems with this theory= *creation of language is improvisionary *linguistic response does not always elicit clear or recognizable rewards, which suggests it would be difficult for a child to have his responses reinforced. Nativist Model ANSWER- Noam Chomsky -attempts to explain how people are able to understand and produce infinite number of linguistic expressions -asserts that individuals are born w/ a universal grammar wired into their brains, which they use as a template for language acquisition. -principles of language are innate and parameters of each language are acquired in first few years of life. -theory present in contemporary thought Vygotsky ANSWER- sociocultural theory states that learning begins as a result of interpersonal communication and then is internalized as intrapersonal