Theoretical Perspectives
by Crystal Whitaker
1. Otto, B. (2010) Language Development in Early Chilhood, Third Edition. Merrill.
2. Children are considered a "blank slate." Learning happens due to relationships between stimuli, responses and events that happen after the behavior.
3. Children acquire language through attempts to communicate with the world around them. Language is acquired out of a need to function in society.
4. Language Knowledge: Semantic, Syntactic & Morphemic
5. Language Knowledge: Pragmatic
6. Interactionsit
7. Theorist: B. F. Skinner
8. Nurture
9. Theorist: Lev Vygotsky
10. Behaviorist
11. Children have an inborn ability to develop language.
12. Language is acquired as maturation occurs and cognitive competencies develop. There is no special language mechanism, children use the same mechanisms for all learning.
13. Language Knowledge: Syntactic
14. Language Knowledge: Semantic & Morphemic
15. Theorist: Noam Chomsky
16. Theorist: Jean Piaget
17. Nature
18. Cognitive Developmentalist
19. Nativist
