https://padlet.com/samantha_milton/dvc46hvhym6g Page 60-70 en-us 2019-01-29 23:56:50 UTC 2025-12-06 13:48:19 UTC hello@padlet.com Samantha_Milton https://padlet.com/samantha_milton/dvc46hvhym6g/wish/325658857 Behaviorist hypothesize, for language acquisition, children learn their first language through stimulus, response, and reinforcement. The behaviorist approach places primary weight on children imitating what they have heard and has been proven the least adequate for explaining observed facts in child language development.

Second Language Acquisition
Behaviorist theories of language have influenced second language teaching in a number of ways that persist today. One method is the audiolingual method in which tape-recorded dialogues are presented for students to memorize, followed by pattern drills for practicing verb forms and sentence structures. For behaviorists, the process involved in second or foreign language learning consisted of imitation, repetition, and reinforcement of grammatical structures.

]]> 2019-01-30 00:01:03 UTC https://padlet.com/samantha_milton/dvc46hvhym6g/wish/325658857 Samantha_Milton https://padlet.com/samantha_milton/dvc46hvhym6g/wish/325659900 Chomsky, after considering the complex intricacies of children's development of grammar, concluded that language acquisition could only be accounted for by an innate and biological language acquisition device (LAD) or system. From the innatist perspective, children construct grammar through a process of hypothesis testing.

Second Language Acquisition
Just as Chomsky's theories inspired psycholinguists to record and describe the developing grammars of young first language learners, they also influenced research on second language acquisition. One theory put forth was the creative construction theory. The authors of this theory proposed that English learners creatively construct the rules of the second language in a manner similar to that observed in first language acquisition. ]]> 2019-01-30 00:07:10 UTC https://padlet.com/samantha_milton/dvc46hvhym6g/wish/325659900 Samantha_Milton https://padlet.com/samantha_milton/dvc46hvhym6g/wish/325660747 According to the interactionist position, caregivers play a critical role in adjusting language to facilitate the use of innate capacities for language acquisition. Thus, the interactionist view takes into consideration the importance of both nature and nurture in the language acquisition process. The interactionist perspective acknowledges both the child's role and that of the caregivers in the social environment, emphasizing the importance of social interactions aimed at communication as the essential ingredient in language acquisition.

Second Language Acquisition
Interactionists view the communicative give-and-take of natural conversations between native and non-native speakers as the crucial element of the language acquisition process. They focus on the ways in which native speakers modify their speech to try and make themselves understood by English-learning conversational partners.]]> 2019-01-30 00:12:36 UTC https://padlet.com/samantha_milton/dvc46hvhym6g/wish/325660747 Samantha_Milton https://padlet.com/samantha_milton/dvc46hvhym6g/wish/325669383 2019-01-30 01:04:25 UTC https://padlet.com/samantha_milton/dvc46hvhym6g/wish/325669383 Samantha_Milton https://padlet.com/samantha_milton/dvc46hvhym6g/wish/325669503 "Specifically, Chomsky claimed that infants universally possess an innate "grammar template," or universal grammar, which will allow them to select the many grammatical rules of the language they hear spoken around them, as they gradually construct the grammar of their mother tongue." (p.61)

]]> 2019-01-30 01:05:13 UTC https://padlet.com/samantha_milton/dvc46hvhym6g/wish/325669503 Samantha_Milton https://padlet.com/samantha_milton/dvc46hvhym6g/wish/325670065 2019-01-30 01:08:55 UTC https://padlet.com/samantha_milton/dvc46hvhym6g/wish/325670065 Samantha_Milton https://padlet.com/samantha_milton/dvc46hvhym6g/wish/325670218 "Behaviorists assumed that the child's mind was a tabula rasa, a blank state awaiting the scripture of experience." (p.61)]]> 2019-01-30 01:09:49 UTC https://padlet.com/samantha_milton/dvc46hvhym6g/wish/325670218 Samantha_Milton https://padlet.com/samantha_milton/dvc46hvhym6g/wish/325671476 "Caregivers generally facilitate children's vocabulary development, their ability to use language appropriately in social situations, and their ability to get things done through language." (p.63)]]> 2019-01-30 01:16:40 UTC https://padlet.com/samantha_milton/dvc46hvhym6g/wish/325671476 Samantha_Milton https://padlet.com/samantha_milton/dvc46hvhym6g/wish/325674130 2019-01-30 01:31:31 UTC https://padlet.com/samantha_milton/dvc46hvhym6g/wish/325674130 Samantha_Milton https://padlet.com/samantha_milton/dvc46hvhym6g/wish/325674339 2019-01-30 01:32:30 UTC https://padlet.com/samantha_milton/dvc46hvhym6g/wish/325674339 Samantha_Milton https://padlet.com/samantha_milton/dvc46hvhym6g/wish/325674505 2019-01-30 01:33:24 UTC https://padlet.com/samantha_milton/dvc46hvhym6g/wish/325674505