Child Language Acquisition Data and Theory Card Sort KS5 Language Library

Child language acquisition data and theory card sort – KS5 language library

“I falled over.”
Chomsky - Regular rules being applied to irregular forms – a child will not have been taught this through nurture / “I saw two mouses.”
Chomsky- Active application of rule / “We runned away.”
Chomsky- as before / “There’s lots of mans over there.”
Chomsky – as before / Child calls an orange, pear and peach “apple”.
Cognitive (Piaget) – under developed skills of classification.
Child calls cat “blanket” while stroking it.
Cognitive (Piaget) – under developed skills of classification. / Child calls own shoes “shoes” but doesn’t know what to call his brother’s shoes.
Cognitive (Piaget) – under developed skills of classification. / Child calls her dad, her uncle and the postman “daddy”.
Cognitive (Piaget) – under developed skills of classification. / Child calls snow “white” but doesn’t know word for the colour of her paper or sheets.
Cognitive (Piaget) – under developed skills of classification. / “What her doing, daddy?”
“Me go to nursery.” / “We going to granny house.” / “Why he fall over, mummy?” / “He gave I the juice.” / The fact that certain types of brain injury can impair certain aspects of language use.
Chomsky – language is biologically determined
The ‘wugs’ experiment by Berko-Gleason.
Chomsky / The ‘fis phenomena’.
Comprehension comes before meaning / The fact that all children, whatever language they speak, go through similar stages of acquisition.
Chomsky / Liam: Can we watch ord of the wings?
Dad: What’s ord of the wings, like a bird’s wings?
Liam: No, Ord of the Wings!
Comprehension comes before meaning / Child has developed a regional accent, like parents.
Skinner - imitation
Child uses swear word she heard dad using when he stubbed his toe.
Skinner / Child: The daddy doll’s more big than this one
Parent: Yes, it’s much bigger, isn’t it?
Child: It’s more bigger
Bruner / Child can use comparatives and superlatives like ‘bigger’ and ‘biggest’.
cognitive / The case of Jim, the hearing boy born to deaf parents.
Chomsky / The case of Genie, the girl discovered at 13 who couldn’t learn complex grammar.
Chomsky

Child language acquisition data and theory card sort – KS5 language library

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INNATENESS OR NATIVIST THEORY

Noam Chomsky

Steven Pinker

‘Doesn’t fit neatly’

THEORY

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COGNITIVE THEORY

Jean Piaget

SOCIAL INTERACTION THEORY

Jerome Bruner

IMITATION/ BEHAVIOURIST THEORY

B.F. Skinner