chomsky or skinner
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Chomsky
OrSkinner?
Aisyah
Aiifa
Darrelene
Nes
Nicole
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Chomskys theorywhich is believed people have a basic pattern of
LEARNING LANGUAGE inside of their brain SINCETHEY WERE BORN
B F Skinnerstheorywhich is believed PEOPLE HAVE TO BE TAUGHT how
to speak by someone for language acquisition
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We mostly agree with Chomsky
theory and partly Skinnertheory
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People speak their language withoutstudying.
It means people already have an ability of
language pattern in their brainPeople usually dont remember how they learned to
speak, but everybody speaks their first language
without any problems. Some Children even speak
more than two languages naturally
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Eg: A two years old kid can already speak.
Of course, that kid has never studied.
So, people must have some kind of
language ability innately.
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Chomsky says human brain contains a languageacquisition device (LAD) which automatically analyzesthe components of speech a child hears.
The human brain has special function, unlikely otheranimals. Thats why only humans speak languages.
Learning language for a human is very easy becausethe human brain already contains ability of language,
so even children start to speak language naturally intheir early age.
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People in young age are very easy to acquire
more than two languages at same time. Even
if those languages are very different, and
their parents dont speak those languages. It
also proves PEOPLE MUST HAVE AN ABILITY
TO FUNCTION IN ANY LANGUAGE INNATELY.
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GENIE
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language got deprived during her critical
period
of learning first language, and she couldnt
acquire her language skill normally even
though she studied
This fact supports B. F. Skinners theory
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Even young children speak language without
learning, but they often make mistakes in
their speech.
While they are growing, their number of
mistakes in their speech decreases.
They are learning how to speak, so in this
case some part of Skinners theory is also
correct.
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learning second language for people in older
age supports Skinners theory.
People have to keep learning language to
improve their second language.
It hardly ever gets perfect because people
have to learn all rules and structures from
beginning which dont apply to their first
language
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If we have learning language system innately,
why cant we easily adjust to speak another
language?
We cant apply Chomskys theory at all in this
case.
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In conclusion, until people reach critical
period of learning language, people learn
their language automatically without being
taught because of their innate ability of
language
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the ability of language has to be activated in
the first place by something.
Otherwise, people never begin to acquire
their language.
Once people past the critical period, it is
hard to learn any language.
Thereby, people in older age usually have
problem learning second language
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Both Chomskys and Skinners theories are
correct in different cases and language
acquisition system works with both of them
together.