Theories of language acquisition
Across
- 2. someone who takes care of a person who is young, old, or sick
- 8. This theory placed acquisition of language within the context of a child's mental or cognitive development
- 12. …………………… are a set of functional skills or age-specific tasks that most children can do at a certain age range
- 14. Noam Chomsky said the brain has an innate function for language acquisition, this natural faculty is called …………………………
- 17. ……… was a Swiss psychologist and genetic epistemologist
- 18. This theory says that children must have an inborn faculty for language acquisition
- 19. adults use a different speech when they want to talk with a child, this process is called ……………………
- 20. This theory emphasizes the interaction between children and their care-givers
Down
- 1. when the child does something right or correctly, the behaviorist theory says that the parents or caregiver need to give to the child a ……………
- 3. when you repeat many times some activity, that you need to do it again like a drug (think about Operant conditioning)
- 4. In Chomsky’s theory we have the LAD, but in the interactionist theory we have ……………………..
- 5. ………….. American psychologist and educator who developed theories on perception, learning, memory, and other aspects of cognition in young children
- 6. According with the text, the innateness theory explained that the process to acquire a language is ……………………….
- 7. ………… is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist
- 9. Children make mistakes when they are learning to speak, but sometimes these mistakes are good, how does the author call these mistakes?
- 10. “Neuro-science has also identified specific areas of the brain with distinctly linguistic functions, notably Broca's area and …………………..”
- 11. This theory talks about how children learn a language through imitation
- 13. there is a period when children have a big facility to understand and learn a language, who does the text call this period?
- 15. In phonetic terms, an .......... is a stretch of spoken language that is preceded by silence and followed by silence or a change of speaker
- 16. ……. was an American psychologist, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher (write just the last name)