The Importance Of Language Acquisition

Language acquisition is a topic that has generated various theories throughout time. These theories have given us some sort of idea as to how kids can acquire language. Chomsky, for example, has categorized humans as innate, we basically do not learn language through our caregivers (parents, grandparents, day care personnel) but we are born with the capability to utter words and create sentences on our own since birth. The environment we are exposed to, to the input caregivers have in a child’s developmental stage of language, may or may not have an impact in the acquisition. So then, how on Earth does a child acquire language? Let us explore some areas experts have studied children obtaining language at such a young age, The environment for

But since children have not completely obtained the tools in their brain to fluently communicate with adults and being grammatically correct most of the time it is normal that they commit some grammatical errors. But interesting enough children’s comprehension and production most of the times, if not always is accomplished differently. One of these reasons may be that even though children are equipped with the basic knowledge of language, this can happen because a child overgeneralizes words. Which indicates that a child learns one word for one thing, looks at another object that resembles the previous element and associates it with their previous finding and it automatically clicks in their brain. For example, we have a dog named Nacho and a little girl named Jamileth. Nacho is presented to Jamileth as a golden Cocker Spaniel, with big black eyes and a big black round nose, she utters the word Nacho. Then when being inside a pet store she encounters a big golden retriever, and she exclaims NACHO! Followed by a series of dog sightings inside the pet store, and every single dog, regardless of race or appearance, to her they are called Nacho’s. Jamileth understands that there is a dog and they call him Nacho, but to her at that point every dog is not called a “Nacho”, but a “Nacho”, this being her way of saying