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    The cognitive basis of language: how childrenlearn language.

    The nature vs. nurture debate: behaviorism or

    an innate capacity for acquisition?Lectured byHASBI SJAMSIR

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    How do children develop?What is Language?How do children acquireLanguage?

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    3 domains occurs in development

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    Language is code that we learn to usein order to communicate ideas andexpress our wants and needs.Reading, writing, speaking, and somegesture system are all forms oflanguage

    Language is the systematic andconventional use of sounds (or signs orwritten symbols) for the purpose ofcommunication or self-expression

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    Speech is the spokenform of language

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    Children learn language and speechby listening to the language around

    them and practicing what they hear.In this way, they figure out the rulesof the language code. It is notlearned all at once but in stages over

    time.

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    Harvey Daniels in Nine IdeasAbout Language says:

    Children learn theirnative language swiftly,

    efficiently, and largelywithout instruction

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    There are numerous theories about languageacquisition, and they include 2 main schools

    of thought

    These theoristspropose thatwe are pre-wired forlanguage learning. It

    is partof our human nature

    These theoristspropose

    that language is anentirely learned

    behavior

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    WHAT DO YOU THINK?

    INNATE

    NATIVIST

    LEARNED

    EMPIRICIST

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    Knowledge originates in humannature

    Plato and KantChomsky Language is innate, and that our brains

    contain a dedicated special purpose

    learning device that has evolved forlanguage alone

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    Language Acquisition Device (LAD)Receive primary linguistic input in the form of sentences of

    the language heard by the child, and produces, as output,grammatical sentences of the language

    Children are not predisposed to learn any particularlanguage; all are born with the same facility and will

    develop as native speakers of the language of thecommunity into which they are born. The child has innate

    knowledge of universal principles that govern the structureof language

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    UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR

    Language is essentially the same experiencefor all human beings, no matter what

    language they speak, where they are or howthey interact with their model

    Some forms of languages is common to almostall human beings.

    Language is an ability human process, not byvirtue of specific learning or teaching, but by

    virtue of their humaness

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    Behaviorism & associationismKnowledge originates in the environment,

    and comes in through the senses

    Children are conditioned to learn languageby a stimulus-response patternAristotleSkinner

    There are no limits to what a human being canbecome, given time, opportunity and theapplication of very general laws of learning

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    Constructivist & EmergentistRecognizes that many factors

    influence language development

    Outcomes can arise for reasons thatare not obvious or predictable fromany of the individual inputs to the

    problem

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    There are three well knowntheories:

    1.Development cognitive theory (JeanPiaget)

    2.Information processing model3.Social interaction (Lev Vgotsky)

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    Children construct their ownknowledge in response to their

    experiencesChildren learn many things on theirown without the intervention of olderchildren or adults

    Children are intrinsically motivatedto learn and do not need rewardsfrom adults to motivate learning

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    Four major development stages inchildren that describe how a childlearns

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    How the brain processes informationand draws comparisons between the

    brain and a computer

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    Social interaction plays an importantrole in the learning process

    Zone of Proximal Developmentdescribes the differences betweenwhat a child will do on his/her own orwith guidance

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