II.

Based from your readings, choose and discuss comprehensively only two (2)
issues/concerns on language acquisition: (15 points each)
1. LAD: Language Acquisition Device (Black Box)
2. The Critical Period Hypothesis (CPH) –Lenneberg
3. Evidence used to support Chomsky’s innatist position
4. Issues/Problems of Innatism
5. Issues/concerns on “CARETAKER TALK’ during the language acquisition
process
6. The Idea of Zone of proximal development (ZPD)
7. Chomsky’s critical review of behaviorist theory

The Critical Period Hypothesis (CPH)—Lenneberg

The Critical Period Hypothesis states that the first few years of life is the crucial
time in which an individual can acquire a first language presented with adequate stimuli,
 
Note: You will be graded based from the following measures:

1. Introduction                                              ----      2
2. Supporting Points and Details                ----      5
3. Flow/Transitions/Language Use            ----      5
4. Conclusion                                                 ----      3
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                                                                               15 points

 
III. Supply some important details from the different views of language and
language leaning. 
(15 points)
 
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Structural

Functional

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