different theorists and their theories.

Innateness Theory – Chomsky

·         Children learn language from exposure

·         He believed the exposure to be fragmentary, and incomplete(Partial)

·         Observed that children had a natural ability to learn their native language – they are born naturally with the ability

·         Concluded that children would deduct their own linguistic rules, they would tend to over generalise; ’mices’ ‘sheeps’ ‘runned’ are all very common.

·         Revealed theory about the nature of the child mind structure

·         Developed the theory of LAD (Language Acquisition Device)

B.F Skinner – Imitation and Behaviourism

·         Children begin to coo and babble which are not provided with any rewards

·         Once child mimics caregivers language, which gets rewarded

·         Result; when children speak a recognisable word, they are praised, and cooing and babbling are not praised, and are forgotten

Social interactionist theory(s)

·         Bruner – believed in 3 modes of representation, these are ways of in which children process and manipulate information
1. Enactive
child has little in mental faculties, meaning they think physically rather than mentally e.g. saying what they are doing as they are doing it. Knowledge is what the child can control or do with movements, like pointing. Enactive knowledge is a key development for physical activities like riding a bike and swimming.
2. Iconic
When mental images develop in a child’s mind that allows them to retain pictures in their minds. This enables them to draw, and certain images or icons that they see or recall they can now express in pictures. Some drawings will be drawn from past experiences and exposure to familiar objects and figures e.g. caregivers.
3. Symbolic
The symbolic stage  is the stage of when a child starts to symbolize or associate a certain word with a particular object or visa versa, children begin to categorise certain objects and begin to develop basic logic, and can solve problems.