WorksheetsTheories of Language Acquisition
Total questions: 9
Worksheet time: 13mins
According to Piaget's cognitive theory, what must a child understand before acquiring a particular language form?
Social norms
Cultural practices
Concepts relevant to the language form
Grammar rules
Which of the following is NOT a limitation of the cognitive theory of language acquisition?
It explains the relationship between language and intellectual development.
It emphasizes the importance of a child's mental development in acquiring language.
It suggests that children learn language to fulfill their communicative needs.
It fails to explain how children with abnormal mental development can still acquire language fluency.
Interactionist theories, such as Jerome Bruner's, highlight the importance of:
Behavior reinforcement
Innate language-learning mechanisms
Interaction between children and caregivers
Cognitive development
Which term refers to the language behavior of adults when talking to children, adapted to support the language acquisition process?
Child-directed speech
Language Acquisition Device
Scaffolding
Language Acquisition Support System
According to Chomsky's innateness theory, children have a (a) for language acquisition.
Skinner's behaviorist theory of language acquisition focuses on the role of (a) in shaping children's language behavior.
Matching
Explain the limitations of the behaviorist theory of language acquisition, providing at least two objections to the theory.
Compare and contrast Chomsky's innateness theory with Piaget's cognitive theory of language acquisition, highlighting their central ideas and differences.
