hypotheses
Children acquire language through imitation
What is the imitation hypothesis?
bababa or gagaga are examples of this
What is babbling?
Language acquisition is the formation of habits.
What is behaviorism?
The ability to use language appropriately, accurately, and flexibily.
What is communicative competence?
People are born with brains hardwired to learn language
What is the innateness hypothesis?
During this stage, children have single unit utterances.
What is the one-word stage?
All children are born with the innate ability to acquire a language.
What is universal grammar?
Ability to create grammatically correct utterances.
What is linguistic competence?
Language is acquired through reinforcement.
What is the reinforcement hypothesis?
Creating sounds similar to the velar consonants [k] and [g]
What is cooing?
Krashen's hypothesis that language is acquired in a predictable order.
What is the natural order hypothesis?
Ability to create socially appropriate utterances.
What is sociolinguistic competence?
Children extract the rules of language from their environment.
What is the interactionist hypothesis?
Age range when children have a vocabulary spurt.
What is eighteen to twenty months?
Proponent that suggested the i+1 with regard to language input.
Who is Stephen Krashen?
Ability to solve communication problems as they arise using the appropriate strategies.
What is strategic competence?
This is the device assumed to be present in all people's brains, making them hardwired to learn a language.
What is the language acquisition device?
Type of speech using a limited number of content words for children aged two to two and a half.
What is telegraphic speech?
L1 influences learners' L2 acquisition process.
What is interlanguage?
Ability to produce coherent and cohesive utterances.
What is discourse competence?