CLA Revision
Noam Chomsky
- Nativist - the capacity to acquire language is innate within humans.
- Human brain is programmed to acquire grammatical structures.
- LAD (language acquisition device)
Overextension
- Children overextend physical qualities of others and features such as shape, sound, taste, movement, size, textures.
Piaget
- Cognitive - Children develop their linguistic competence alongside their ability to understand the world around them.
-Will only acquire more complex forms if their intellectual development can cope.
- It will be unsuccessful to try and teach them things before they are ready.
Michael Halliday
Functions of Speech:
- Instrumental - to fulfil a need.
- Regulatory - to influence the behaviour of others. (influential power)
- Interactional - to build social relationships.
-Personal - conveying opinions, ideas and personal identity.
-Representational - facts and information.
- Imaginative - creating an imaginary world
- Heuristic - to learn about their environment
Jerome Bruner
- LASS (language acquisition support system)
- The childs interaction with the adults around them helps them develop their language.
- Scaffolding - that adults gradually withdraw the support as their children's language skills develop.
Child Directed Speech
-imperatives and interrogatives
- higher pitch
- repetition
- present tense
- fewer verbs/modifiers
- concrete nouns
- yes/no questioning
- one-word utterances
- expansions or recasts
