Theories Behaviourists Innatists Constructionist Connectionism Piaget Vygotsky

The roll of The child has the The children Active. Builder of Passive, by How children’s Children are able to
the child role as a listener born with its own association of what cognitive development advance to a higher
and imitator of innate rules knowledge. a word or phrase would partly level of knowledge and
what it listened. and structures represents in determine how they performance.
of language context. use language.
already.

The linguistic Children imitate Children born The interplay Children acquire Language can be used Vygotsky concluded
focus the words they with the between the links or connections to represent that language develops
listened on their abilities to innate learning in between words knowledge that primarily from social
environment understand and ability of children and phrases and the children have acquired interaction.
until they get improve the and the situations in which through physical
confidence on it, use of the environment in they occur. interaction with the
when they go it language which they environment.
they starts using develop.
the language
creatively.

Process of The child will Children Interacting with The association of a The developing The Zone of Proximal
acquisition acquire the acquire the people and objects word or phrase in cognitive Development (ZPD)
language thanks language around them. context to a specific understanding is built requires adults or peers
to the help of the through the object, event or on the interaction to provide assistance to
imitation of the LAD person to what it between the child and students, who cannot
words in its (Language represents and the things that can be complete the assigned
environment. Acquisition overtime these observed or task without help.
Device). LAD associations will manipulated.
is the structure become stronger
that children and general. This
already have in will help them to
their brain and use the correct
LAD helps words according to
them to what they
include new experience.
words to their
vocabulary.

The role of The child listens Children can Environment will Expose children to Piaget believed Vygotsky argued that
the and repeats speak and bring the many opportunities individuals must adapt language develops in a
environment everything it understand the experience to to learn words and to their environment. supportive interactive
listens. So, for language learn the language phrases. He described two environment.
the Behavioral around them due to an processes for
theory it is very because they exposition of it in adaptation which is an
important the first have a communication organism’s ability to
constantly contact to their with others. fit in with its
contact with environment environment,
people (parents, who gave them assimilation and
grandparents, the base of the accommodation.
etc.) structures to
reach the
understanding
of the language

Input The listening As well the The exposure of The exposure of the Their caregiver´s In his work, Vygotsky
here is so environment is the language language occurs in attention is crucial for emphasized the roles of
important important to occurs in interaction with the child to acquire social interaction and
because it´s the get the Input, interaction with situations, objects or knowledge. instruction.
way that the in this theory the environment. people that will
child will learn a says that the teach them those
language. more words and phrases.
important
 thing is LAD.

Output Here we could Chomsky says Children learn the The language will Their use of language Social interaction plays
hear what the that the child language by be produced by an important role in
child learned in can have a repetition of what memory. When extends primarily to student learning. It is
Input stage. If the good speech they hear. hearing a word this through social
child has a not because the will remind the babbles and few interaction that students
correct speaker environment object and when spoken learn from each other,
to listen, the unless the seeing an object this as well as adults.
words.
child is going to LAD. Without will remind the
have a good the LAD, the word.
speech. speech is not
reached.

The error The children will Caregivers Accommodation The ZPD is the gap
correction learn the usually correct changes the cognitive between what learners
language trough children's structures; it changes are able to do
positive and language mistakes the schema, so it can independently, and what
negative in what Brunner increase its efficiency. they may need help in
reinforcements calls the Child- accomplishing
for their directed speech
repetitions or (CDS) to support
imitations of the the acquisition
language. process. This
support can be
described as
scaffolding.

REFERENCES:

● Theory of Language Acquisition

https://www.montsaye.northants.sch.uk/assets/Uploads/English-Language-Summer-Work-2.pdf

● Brwa R. Sharif (2013, May, 5). Theories of First Language Acquisition