10 - Learning language: stages and explanations of language acquisition
10 - Learning language: stages and explanations of language acquisition
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This Factsheet summarises:
• the process of learning languages (stages of language development);
• explanations of language acquisition, including nativist, learning and interactionist theories.
Introduction
• A newborn baby can only communicate by crying yet by 17 years old we have an average vocabulary of 80,000 words. A child learns about nine new words a day from 18 months old to five years old.
• How do we learn to speak our native language? Is the ability to speak something we are born with or something we learn?
