Kindergarten Children and Language Learning: Missing Pillars for Language Acquisition
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Language development and acquisition in children
Language acquisition is a natural developmental process and is unique to Homo sapiens in which a child acquiring his or her mother tongue as a first language. The simplest theory of language development is that children learn language by imitating adult language. A second possibility is that children acquire language through conditioning. Noam Chomsky put forward innateness hypothesis. Piaget ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Higher Education
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1927-6052,1927-6044
DOI: 10.5430/ijhe.v2n1p44