EDUC 309 Chapter 9: Chapter 9
10 Feb 2019
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Interactionism: behaviourism and nativism: both children"s biological readiness to learn language and their experiences with language in their environment come together to bring about language development. Individuals continue to learn language, including a second language, using the same parts of the brain that were used in fist language learning: prenatal development: Infants become familiar with and prefer "the rhythms and sounds of language" that they prenatally hear: within the first few days of life, infants show a preference for a particular language their mother speaks. Sets the stage for language development: one study showed that babies sound like a language they have been hearing when they cry (low pitch to high or vice versa) Shape infants language developing ability by talking to them as if they understand, even when it is clear they do not: early experience of back-and-forth dialogue, child-directed speech: special way that we talk to infants and young children.
