Theories of Language development

Input & output

Theories of Language Development

English Didactics II

Manuel Alexander Pineda Veliz

caregiver speech

Content

01 Language Acquisition

02 Language Approaches

03 Language Learning

04 CC-queuing

05 Discussion

06 Thanks

What did you learn from the videos?

01 Language Acquisition

1. It is an impressive aspect of human development.
2. It proceeds rapidly.
3. There is adult-like mastery of all aspects in the language.
4. It is contextualized.
5. There is formal and informal input and output.
6. The caregiver speech is responsible of the toddler’s success in language development.

How does a baby communicate his needs?

02 Language Acqisition Approaches

Lev Vigotsky: Sociocultural

Noam Chomsky: Innatism

John Watson: Behaviorism

Who was right?

03 Language Learning

1. It is a concious process.
2. It comes from formal instruction.
3. There are issues in conversational fluency.
4. It proceeds slowly.
5. The individual variations impact such process.
6. Psychological process: Explicit (structure) Implicit (examples)
7. The input and output is not abundant.

03 Language Learning

1. Interlanguage
2. Fossilization occurs.
3. Lack of context
4. The Critical Period Hypothesis
5. The input quality and quantity
6. Adults have metalinguistic knowledge (ability to correct, describe, and explain second language errors. Children lack the ability.

Cognates

03 Language Learning Stages

04 CC-queuing

05 discussion

Thanks!