Theories of language acquisition

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