Chapter10Languageacquisition.pptVIP

Chapter 10 Language acquisition Language acquisition —refers to the child’s acquisition of his mother tongue, i.e. how the child comes to understand and speak the language of his community. Language acquisition vs. Language learning Questions to be answered How do children accomplish this? What enables children to learn words and string them together into meaningful sentences? What facilitates children to develop the grammatical system of their language? Theories of child language acquisition A behaviorist view of language acquisition Skinners 行为主义 An innatist view of language acquisiti