THEORIES OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION IN RELATION LANGUAGE LEARNING

descriptive and normative studies

child language

traditional grammars

the nature of the linguistic

ability of the child

competence, as distinguished from
performance, to describe this knowledge

theories of language

the kind of theory he himself proposes is needed

operant learning, reinforcing stimuli, time and scheduling of reinforcement, and generalization

Language is a mentalistic phenomenon

Jenkins and Palermo

emphasize imitation

child to construct longer sentences.

physiological, motor, neural,
and cognitive developments

abilities in categorization

study the problem of language

phonological and syntactic systems

constant evaluation of the developing linguistic

transformational nature of grammatical structure

the mental ability

process information increasingly with age

linguistic principles

the human learner as an active participant

cognitive capacity of the child

express events out of chronological