Innatism

BY CINTHIA BAZALDUA & MIGUEL TRESS

INNATISM

Theories of Language Learning

INDEX

References

Krashen's 'Monitor Model

Background

Critical Period Hypothesis

Universal Grammar

Language Adquisition

The innatist perspective

Innatism in the L2 acquisition.

Theores of Language Learning

Theores of Language Learnin

BACKGROUND

Behaviourism-Pavlov -Skinner -Watson

Chomsky’s hypothesis says that all human languages are based on some innate universal principles. In his 1959 review of Skinner's book Verbal Behavior, Chomsky argued that children are biologically programmed for language and that language develops in the child in the same way that other biological functions develop.

The innatism perspective

Nolan Chomsky

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The rejection of behaviorism as an explanation for first language acquisition was partly triggered by Chomsky, who argued that innate knowledge of the principles of Universal Grammar permits all children to acquire the language of their environment during a critical period of their development. The environment makes only a basic contribution, the child's biological endowment will do the rest. He concluded that children minds are not blank slates to be filled by imitating language they hear in the environment.

LANGUAGE ADQUISITION

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Theories of Language Learning

There are a range of logical possibilities concerning whether or not Universal Grammar remains available for the L2 learner: First hypothesis Second hypothesis Third hypothesis

UG described in Chomsky’s Syntactic structures work, proposed that a set of universal principles characterizes all human languages, in which learners appear to know what to do with a language even though they have not been explicitly taught certain rules; contrasting with the idea held by behaviorists and structuralists in that it regarded language as an innate ability.

UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR

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The Critical Period Hypothesis

Theories of Language Learning

Innatism in the L2 acquisition.

Jacquelyn Schachter

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2003

Vivian Cook

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1990

Robert Bley-Vroman

02

2003

LydiaWhite

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1991

Lidia White

05

2003

Bonnie Schwartz

04

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Krashen's Model

Affective filter hypothesis

The comprehensible Hypothesis:

Natural Order Hypothesis

Monitor Hypothesis

Acquisition learning hypothesis

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ReferenceList

- Ligntbown & Spada 2013, p.20-24 (The innatist perspective –L1); p.104-107 (The innatist perspective-L2), - Hummel 2014, pp.67-70 ( 4.3 Universal Grammar); pp. 70-75 (4.4.The monitor Model) - Brown 2014, pp. 74-74 (The Natural Approach)