Believes that all
children are hardwired
to learn any language
when they are born.
He suggests that children combine the
information they have gained from just being
surrounded by lanaguge everyday, with the
knowledge they already carry in their brains.
Chomsky titled this 'INATE' and it plays a huge
part in the LAD (Language Acquisition Device)
Overgeneralisations often support Chomsky as children have
their own form of language that adults don't use. (Also an
example of his disagreement with Skinner)
PIAGET
SKINNER
BRUNER
LASS (Language Acquisition Support System)
He viewed child
parent interactions
with books in four
phases:
1. GAINING ATTENTION- getting the baby to focus on a picture
2. QUERY - asking the baby what an object is in
the picture
3.LABEL- telling the baby what the object in the picture is