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 If you are in search of Language Acquisition Theories , especially Interactionist Theory then you are in the right place. Here you can find Jerome Bruner's Theory of language acquisition or Child development theory  Topic:           Interactionist Theory                            OR          Jerome Bruner Theory  Jerome Bruner (1961) believed that children are born with the ability to develop language but they require regular interaction with their caregivers or teachers to learn and understand it to a level of full fluency. This idea is known as the Language Acquisition Support System (LASS). Caregivers tend to correct mistakes that children make when using language and also regularly teach them what objects are and what their purposes are.   Burner suggests that this helps to build the scaffolding that children will later rely on when fur...

  After reading this blog you will be able to properly understand the Nativist theory or Noam Chomsky's theory of Language Acquisition / Child development theory  Nativist Theory: Noam Chomsky (1957) proposes that children are born with an instinct or drive for language learning which he calls the language acquisition device (LAD).  He argued that even if a child is not educated in their country's language, so long as they grow in a normal environment, they will still devise a system of verbal communication.  Therefore, there must be an innate, biological component to language acquisition. What is the language acquisition device? Chomsky suggests that the language acquisition device (LAD) must be located somewhere in the brain, serving as an encoder that provides us with a baseline understanding of grammatical structure.  As children learn new words, they are able to incorporate them into their use of language independently. Chomsky argues that this indepen...

  In this video I will explain New Criticism,   background of new criticism and   explanation of new criticism. Background & Information of New Criticism: The Term was coined by W.k.Wimsat and        Monroe Beardsley as a principle of new          criticism. It emphasized close reading, particularly       of poetry, to discover how a work of                 literature functioned as a self-contained,         self-referential aesthetic object. The movement derived its name from              John Crowned Ransom's 1941 book. The focus of this movement is analyzing          the form and content of text. Some critics inspire from the movement         of formalism, they further expand this             movement into...

    In this blog, you will find Behavioural theory of language Acquisition or BF Skinner's theory | Child development theory. Behavioral  Theory: The Behavioural theory of language acquisition, sometimes called the Imitation  Theory, is part of behaviorist theory.sm proposes that we are a product of  our environment. Therefore, children have no internal mechanism or ability to develop  language by themselves.  BF Skinner (1957) suggests that children learn the language  first by imitating their caregivers (usually parents) and then modifying their use of  language due to operant conditioning. What is operant conditioning Behaviorism? Operant conditioning is a way of learning that focuses on the reward (positive  reinforcement) or punishment (negative reinforcement) of desired or undesired behavior. How does operant conditioning apply to language acquisition? Skinner suggested that children first learn words and phrases from their ca...