THEORIES OF DESCRIPTION
LANGUAGE
ACQUISITION
1. BEHAVIORIST This theory states that
THEORY conditioning plays an
important role in the
developing child in order to language, where there is
acquire the language.
2. ACCULTURATION This theory of language
MODEL AND acquisition gives emphasis
NATIVIZATION that the developing child
MODEL has this mental faculty that
is innate in every person in
acquiring a language.
3. ACCOMMODATIO This theory suggest that a
N THEORY person has to adjust one’s
speech in a certain circle.
4.SOCIAL INTERACTION Is an explanation of
THEORY language development
emphasizing the role of
social interaction between
the developing child and
linguistically
knowledgeable adults?
5.DISCOURSE THEORY The idea that language
learning involves out of
HOW LANGUANGE IS
AQUIRED
It is the stimuli that
enables the developing
child to acquiring a
reinforcement, and
response to that given
stimuli.
This theory focuses on
mechanism, where it just
needs to be powered in
acquiring language.
is theory concerns the
behavioral aspect of a
person in accommodating
to the other culture in spite
of degrees in a certain
conversation.
This theory proposed the
zone of proximal
development by which it is
the intermission of what
the shield knows and the
potential learning a child
can acquire through the
MKO (More
Knowledgeable Others).
Discourse theory proposes
that in our daily activities
 learning how-to carry-on
conversation.
6. COGNITIVE THEORY Cognitive theory is an
approach
To psychology that
attempts to explain human
behavior by understanding
your thought processes.
7. THE UNIVERSAL It is one which denotes
THEORY that stated relationship
holds for all specified
variables for all times at all
places.
8.NEUROFUNCTIONAL Neurofunctional theory
THEORY considers the involvement
of the right and left
hemisphere of the brain to
be firmly related to
comprehension.
9.MONITOR MODEL Developed by Stephen
THEORY Krashen, that comprises
hypothesis in SLA.
the way we speak and
write is shaped by the
structures of power in our
in our society
Believing oneself capable
of successfully performing
certain or reaching certain
goals. The links have been
clearly shown for the
earliest period of language
learning (up to 18 months)
relating the development
of what parget called
sensory motor intelligence
It provides a perspective
on a consistent
formalization of the
universe phenomena and
the universe as a whole.
Language acquisition
merely depends on the
mental activity of the brain
functioning.
The effectivity in language
acquisition is eliminating
the filter in order to let the
learner commit mistakes
and realize the learning
process.