MTTC ESL PREEMINENT EDUCATIONAL STANDING.

4th stage of first-language aquisition 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 later multiword stage 30+ months characteristic grammatical or functional structures of the primary language emerge and are incorporated Behavioralist Model 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 Mode