Question

In your own words, can you write a detail description of the language activation theory of

1. Jean Piaget

2. B.F Skinner

3. Noam Chomsky

4. Lev Vygotsky

Can someone please help

Answer 1

1. According to Jean Piaget's theory of language development, metal structures are being created by children inside the mind and with the help of these structures, lannguage development take place. Children make use of incorporation and arrangement to learn language.

2. According to Skinner, the process of language learning of a child is dependent on behaviorist reinforcement principles. These principles are carried out by relating words with phases. He also stated that language learning in students also take place through operant conditioning process and by emulating others.

3. Noam Chomsky proposed the "Language Acquisition Device" which is an innate mental capacity that helps an toddler to obtain and build language. According to Noam, human being have this LAD ever since they are born which is opposite to what Skinner believed.

4. According to Vygotsky, both thought and language are different from each other when the life begins for a child. However, ones the child reaches 3, both these factors combine and create a inner speech and this is the result if For Vygotsky, cognitive development results from an internalization of language.