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Language is just one aspect of a child's overall intellectual development.
Cognitive Theory
Interaction Theory
Behaviourist Theory
Children imitate adults. Their correct utterances are reinforced when they get what they want or are praised.
Cognitive Theory
Innateness Theory
Behaviourist Theory
This theory emphasises the interaction between children and their care-givers.
Cognitive
Behaviourist
Interaction
This theory adheres that a child's brain contains special language-learning mechanisms at birth.
Cognitive
Innateness
Behaviourist
He is the proponent of the Behaviourist Theory.
Piaget
Bruner
Skinner
He is the proponent of the Cognitive Theory.
Piaget
Chomsky
Bruner
This is the natural faculty of the brain which makes language learning natural.
tabularasa
language acquisition device
developmental milestones
It is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language, as well as to produce and use words and sentences to communicate.
Language acquisition
Language competence
Language proficiency
It is any language that a person uses other than a first or
native language.
National language
Medium of instruction
Second language
It is the common language spoken by average citizen of a particular place.
Vernacular
Lingua franca
Dialect
It is concerned with the arrangement and meanings of words to form comprehensible phrases or sentences.
morphology
phonology
syntax
It is concerned with the intent, content, and effect of a speech act.
syntax
semantics
pragmatics
It is concerned with the acquisition, perception, and production of language.
Linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Psycholinguistics
It is the teaching about language use and its structure so that the student can speak the target language.
Language acquisition
grammatical competence
Language learning
It is the ability to recognize and produce distinctive grammatical structures of a language in both oral and written communication.
communicative competence
language competence
grammatical competence