Theories of Language Acquisition and Attachment in Childhood

Describe and evaluate theories
of language acquisation and
attachment in childhood

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Theory of language acquisition..............................................................................................3
Biological influence on language acquisition.........................................................................3
Compare and contrasting nature and nurture approaches to language acquisition................4
Bowlby’s Theory of attachment formation............................................................................4
Classical conditioning explanation.........................................................................................5
Evaluate the learning theory using Harlow’s research...........................................................6
Bowlby’s maternal deprivation hypothesis............................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Child development is defined as a sequence of thought, language, physical and emotional
sense. This can finish it from the beginning of birth and adulthood. This process child gets
progress is from dependency to independence. It creates strong insurance and leads to get high
learning in their life language which helps to support the ability of children in communicating
expressing and understanding feelings. This also supports thinking ability and to develop and
maintaining relationship language. Development leads to provide the foundation for reading and
writing skills. This progress starts from school and labs for the rest of life. There is a high impact
of social and within children. This can influence sympathy self-confidence which can develop a
long-lasting and meaningful relationship and partnership which have high value within their life
(Ton, (2020)).
Theory of language acquisition
Nature and nurture both play an important role in language acquisition where learning is
about language acquisition and biological influences. This lets to create environmental influence
on language acquisition. It is said that and language depends largely on involvement believe.
Language can be acquired by the principle of conditioning which includes reinforcement,
imitation, and association. Through this view, children can learn words by associating sounds
like action, event and object. They learn words by imitating people make their children learn
words by reinforcing correct speech. There were some of the credits which were related to
several arguments about the explanation regarding we have where was inadequate. Behaviorist
theory test spinner claims that during learning language acquisition. There can be much error
which is either due to bad habit formation that needs to be correct when they hear accurate
speech which provided by reinforcement of correct speech Illogical influence on language
acquisition (Slavova, (2017)).
Biological influence on language acquisition
According to Chomsky, the human brain has a device of language acquisition which is
the innate mechanism process which focuses children for developing skill regarding language
accordingly. Children are born with Universal grammar that helps them to get that language
easily with a common feature. Due to this background of Grammar, children can pick the
language easily when there exposed to grammar. According to Chomsky, there is a neural