College: TEACHER EDUCATION

Campus : BAMBANG

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NAME: SCORE:

BAYUCA, JEMIL G. .
Family Name, Given Name MI

DEGREE Bachelor in Secondary Education Course E74

PROGRAM ( English) No
COURSE Language, Culture and
Year & BSED 2 TIME 8:00-9:30 TTh TITLE Society
Section
1 4 2 Task Theories of Language Acquisition
IM No. Task No. Title
TASK NO. 2
“Theories of Language Acquisition” Synthesis

Theories of Language Acquisition

Behaviorist Psychology Innatist Theory Sociocultural Theory

Theory

The best-known
proponent for this view is B.
F. Skinner who argued this in
his book Verbal Behavior
(1957). According to this
theory, the human
environment (parents, older
peers and others) provides
language stimuli to which the
child responds, largely by
repetition of what he or she is
hearing.
This theory argues that
there are at least some aspects
of language which must be
already present in the child at
birth. Noam Chomsky (1959)
stated and supported this
theory. Chomsky’s view states
that humans possess a process of acquiring language is
genetically determined
language faculty that makes up
one element of the human
mind. A fixed, genetically
determined system constrains
the forms of language that can
appear, but the structures of
language are set in motion
through interaction with the
environment.
Elinor Ochs and Bambi
Schieffelin (1982), have focused
on several different aspects of
language socialization. They
have two claims that language
acquisition is affected by
sociocultural factors: 1) The
deeply affected by the process
of becoming a competent
member of a society and 2) the
process of becoming a
competent member of the
society is realized to a large
extent through language,
through acquiring knowledge of
its functions..., through
exchanges of language on
particular situation.