Child Language Acquisition & Its Theories

Identify this theory:

Children learn language through imitating adults.

• Behaviourist Theory

• Cognitive Theory

• Innateness Theory

• Interactional Theory

Answer explanation

The behaviourist theory explains that children acquire and learn language through imitating behaviour.

In language acquisition, the psychologist B.F. Skinner was responsible for the _____ theory.

Language used by parents to their young child is called

Which of the following cognitive development stages were theorised by Piaget?

• Sensational, Preoperational,

  Concrete operational,

  Formal operational

• Sensorimotor,

  Preoperational,

  Concrete operational,

  Formal operational

• Sensorimotor

  Predetermined,

  Concised operational,

  Formal operational

• Sensational,

  Egocentric,

  Concised operational,

  Formal operational

At what stage would a child be when they experience the world and gain knowledge through their senses and motor movements.

• Sensorimotor stage

• Preoperational stage

• Concrete operational stage

• Formal concrete operational stage

The formal operational stage include understanding abstract and hypothetical ideas/concepts.

True or False?

• True

• False

What is meant by egocentricism?

• When the child sees everything from their point of view and believes that everyone else thinks like them.

• When the child has already developed language the way they want to.

• When the child has already understood how the world works.

• When the child only believes that their parents are the only people that care about them.

What years (ages) are the Preoperational stage of cognitive development?

• 0 - 2 years old

• 2 - 7 years old

• 7 - 11 years old

• 12 years old and upwards

“Children’s minds are not blank states to be filled by imitating language they hear from the environment”

Who believed in this theory?

• B.F Skinner

• Noam Chomsky

• Jean Piaget

• Vygotsky

Which aspect of language acquisition theory best explains the production of phonemes that children start using?

• Behaviorist Theory

• Innateness Theory

• Cognitive Theory