Theoretical Perspectives
by Sarah Draper
1. Behaviorist
1.1. State that nature or stimuli are how we acquire language.
1.2. Skinner child have an active role in the learning process.
1.2.1. Task 1
1.2.2. Task 2
2. Nativist
2.1. State that we are born knowing how to understand language.
2.2. Chomsky
2.2.1. Task 1
2.2.2. Task 2
2.3. Stated that cognitive structures help us to process language differently then other items.
2.3.1. Meeting 1
2.3.2. Meeting 2
3. Cognitive Developmentalist
3.1. For a child to develop language there must be cognitive growth.
3.2. Jean Piaget
3.2.1. Call 1
3.2.2. Call 2
3.3. As a child matures they develop language.
3.3.1. Meeting 1
3.3.2. Meeting 2
4. Interactionist
4.1. Children learn language frominteracting with the community around them.
4.2. Vygotsky's
4.2.1. Task 1
4.2.2. Task 2
4.3. That society in which the child lives in and communicates with interacts with their language development
4.3.1. Call 1
4.3.2. Call 2