Zusammenfassung der Ressource
First Language Acquisition
- The behaviourist
perspective
- 1. HYPOTHESIS:
The child's
language
behaviour is
shaped by:
- The quality and
quantity of the
language the child
hears.
- Consistency of the
reinforcement
offered by others.
- 2. Imitation and
practice are the
primary
processes in
language
development.
- 3. Behaviorism does
not explain the
acquisition of the
more complex
grammar that
children acquire.
- 4. Influential
figure: B.F.
Skinner.
- The innatist
perspective
- 3.
Influential
figure:
Noam
Chomsky.
- 1. Hypothesis:
All human
languages are
based on some
innate universal
principles.
- The environment offers a
basic contribution: People
who speak to the child.
- The child's
biological
endowment.
- 2. Children
discover the
underlying rules
of a language on
the samples of a
natural
language they
are exposed to.
- Interactionist/developmental
perspectives
- 3. They argue that
innatists place too
much emphasis on the
"final state" of a
language and not
enough to the
developmental aspects
of language acquisition.
- 4. Earliest proponents:
Piaget (interaction is the
expression of written
symbols) and Vygotsky
(social interaction results
from internalized
speech).
- 1. Hypothesis:
Language acquisition is
based on both
learners´ innate
abilities and on
opportunities to
engage in
conversations.
- Language develops
primarily from social
interaction.
- 2. Zone of proximal
development:
Metaphorical place in
which children can do
more than they wold
be capable of doing
independently.