CTET Study Material for English Pedagogy – Theories of Language Acquisition

The concept of language acquisition revolves around two dynamics - nature vs. nurture. Language acquisition also depends upon the influences of language learning , sometimes biological influences re also considered.

NEED FOR RECEPTIVE LANGUAGE BEFORE LEARNING LANGUAGE

INFLUENCE OF ENVIRONMENT ON LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

NEURAL NETWORKS

Neural networks, or Computer Models have been created by some cognitive neuro-scientists which has ability to acquire various aspects of language.

Further:

• They are not pre-programmed with any rules.
• They are exposed to various examples of a language.
• The neural networks are able to learn statistical structure  of a language using the examples and accurately make the past tense forms of verbs accurately which can help children to acquire language in a convenient way through a lots of examples

BIOLOGICAL INFLUENCE ON LAGUAGE

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