Md. 1 Assignment 8081
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MD18081ppt.pptx“Sharing the Past and Present to Move the Field Forward”
Submitted By: Angel Winslow
Date Due: June 7, 2021
Class: EDDD-8080 “Child Development in the Critical Early Years” Module 01
“Jean Piaget"
Jean Piaget was a psychologist who offered take on language acquisition and development. His focus was on child development and the stages children go through to develop and learn.
Piaget did establish that language plays a huge role in cognitive development, chiefly in the way children use language throughout each stage.
“ Jean Piaget “cont'd
Jean Piaget was the developer of the cognitive theory.
During the sensorimotor stage, children experiment with sounds, and language is mostly about the auditory aspects. They don’t care about the meaning; they just like to create sounds.
During the pre-operational stage, children use language to express themselves, but they can’t really distinguish conversation from pure expression.
Lev Vygotsky
Vygotsky: he observed interactions among children and between children and adults in schools.
According to Vygotsky, children can learn better if they interact or engaged in the conversation with other children or adults.
Lev Vygotsky cont’d.
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky, says that human language acquisition is an innate.
According to Chomsky, language doesn’t have to be taught, it is something we gain by nature. Most children learn to walk at about the same age and walking is essentially the same in all normal human beings.
However, it is not needed for anyone to teach us how to walk or to learn the language, so language is acquired by nature.
Noam Chomsky cont’d
B. F. Skinner
B. F. Skinner believed children learn language through operant conditioning—that children receive “rewards” for using language in a functional manner.
Skinner's explanation of language was that any acquisition was due to a learning process.
B.F. Skinner cont’d
Why the information shared by these theorists is vital to early childhood educators
B. F. Skinner believed children learn language through operant conditioning that children receive “rewards” for using language in a functional manner.
Noam Chomsky’s theory states that children have the innate biological ability to learn language; however, his theory has not been supported by genetic or neurological studies.
Jean Piaget’s theory of language development suggests that children use both assimilation and accommodation to learn language.
Lev Vygotsky’s theory of language development focused on social learning and the zone of proximal development (ZPD).
How early childhood educators can use this information in their practice.
In early childhood education, theorists position children and their learning in particular ways which have ramifications for how educators teach, learn and understand child development.
Courses designed to prepare educators to work in the early childhood education and care profession are underpinned by a variety of theories that relate to various aspects of child development and learning – such as
emotional and psychological development, cognitive
and physical development, language and social development, play, autonomy and independence.
