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‘THEORIES OF HOW CHILDREN LEARN – LANGUAGE ACQUISITION'

ASSESSMENT 03B/4 PART 4

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION 2
MAIN STAGES OF LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT 5
NURTURE, OPERANT CONDITIONING AND LEARNING THEORY 9
NATURE/NATIVIST THEORY 13
PIAGET'S COGNITIVE THEORY 16
VYGOTSKY AND BRUNER'S COGNITIVE THEORIES 19
CULTURAL RELATIVITY 24
FACTORS THAT AFFECT LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT 25
HOW ADULTS CAN PROMOTE LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT 28
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT 29
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT 30
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT 31


INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION

Linguistics is the scientific study of language. It endeavours to answer the question – what is language and how is it represented in the mind? Language is a system of symbols and rules; exclusive in its form to human beings that enables us to communicate. Symbols are things that stand for other......

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