02-+Theme+2-+Language+Adquisition+Developing+Oral+Skills

Language Acquisition Developing Oral Skills

__Principal Theories of Language Acquisition:__
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Crystal's Theory Professor Crystal is best known for his two encyclopaedias The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Language and The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of the English Language. So what does this have to do with child language acquisition? David Crystal has the theory that children learn language in five stages, which aren’t clearly defined and some tie in with each other. These stages are: > By this stage children regularly use language to do all the things that they need it for. They give information, asking and answering questions, requesting directly and indirectly, suggesting, offering, stating and expressing.
 * ** __Stage One:__ ** This is where children say things for three purposes.
 * ** __Stage Two:__ ** This is when children usually ask questions, “where” questions come first. Their questions often begin with interrogative pronouns (what, where) followed by a noun or verb such as “where gone?”
 * ** __Stage Three:__ ** By now children would be asking lots of different questions but often signalling that they are questions with intonation alone, for example: “Sally play in garden mummy?” This is made into a question by varying the tone of voice.
 * ** __Stage Four:__ ** This is when children use increasingly complex sentence structures and begin to:
 * Explain things
 * Ask for explanations using the word: “why?”
 * Making a wide range of requests: “shall I do it?
 * ** __Stage Five:__ **

Crystal's Theory (links): [|David Crystal Articles]

Bruner's Theory: Bruner holds that while there very well may be a Language Acquisition Device, or LAD, there must also be a Language Acquisition Support System, or LASS. He is referring to the family and entourage of the child Bruner states through lass that parents often use books and images to develop their childs naming abilities and their ability to get involved in conversation. LASS: 1- Gaining attention- drawing the babies attention to a picture 2- Query- asking the baby to identify the picture 3- Label- telling the baby what the object is 4- Feedback- responding to the babies utterances

Bruner's Theory (links): [|Learning Language] [|Language, Learning and Learning About Language]

Cohmsky's Theory: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Noam Chomsky stated that children are born with an innate knowledge of language when they are born and learning of their native language is at high speed when hearing it from others. This links to children overrgularising and putting grammar into utterences when they are not needed. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">He created the LAD- language acquisition device <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">1. Baby already knows about linguistic rules, as they are born with an innate knowledge of language. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">2. The baby hears examples of his/ her native language <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">3. The linguistic rules help the baby make estimations and presumptions about the language it is hearing. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">4. From these estimations and presumption the baby works out grammatical sets of rules. As more language is heard the grammar becomes more and more like adults.

Chomsky's Theory (links): <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|First Language Acquisition in Extreme Circunstances] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Chomsky and Language Learning]

Task 2: [|Introduction and Phonetics Analysis.doc] - About "Pancake Day" Song. [|Discourse analysis pancake song.doc] - About "Pancake Day" Song. [|template.doc]

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