theories of language

Innate Knowledge

Plato

Locke and Tabula rasa

John Locke

Descartes and Cartesian Linguistics

René Descartes

Krashen and the monitor model and hypothesis

Stephen Krashen

The Acquisition-learning Hypothesis

The Input Hypothesis

The monitor Hypothesis

The Natural Order Hypothesis

The affective Filter Hypothesis: stress inhibits learning.

Universal grammar Theory by Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky