Theoretical Perspectives

1. Interactionist

1.1. Vygotsky,Bruner, Halliday

1.2. Nurture/Pragmatic

1.3. The interactionist perspective focuses on the primary role of sociocultural interaction in children's development of language knowledge children acquire language through their attempts to communicate with the world around them.

2. Behaviorist

2.1. Skinner

2.2. Nuture/Semantic, Syntactic, Morphemic

2.3. The behaviorist perspective emphasizes the role of “nurture” and considers learning to occur based on the stimuli, responses, and reinforcements that occur in the environment

3. Reference:Otto, B. (2010). Language in our lives. In language/ Development in Early Childhood Education. (3rd ed). Pearson, Education; Upper Saddle River, N.J

4. Nativist

4.1. Chomsky

4.2. Nature/Syntactic

4.3. The nativist perspective emphasizes inborn or innate human capabilities (i.e., “nature”) as being responsible for language development

5. Cognitive Developmentalist

5.1. Piaget

5.2. Nature/Semantic, Morphemic

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5.3. The emphasis of this perspective is that language is acquired as maturation occurs and cognitive competencies developa child learns language by using the same mechanisms as for other learning. Thus, there is no unique language mechanism.

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