THEORIES OF LANGUAGE

DEVELOPMENT

Piaget's cognitive theory

individual plays a vital and active role
He believed that the childhood of the

with the growth of intelligence, and that the child learns through active
doing and exploring, according to the different stages the child goes
through.

Sensory-motor stage (0 to 2 years)

Pre operational (2-7 years)

Concrete operations (7-12 years)

Formal operations (12 yeaar

BEHAVIORAL THEORY
Skinner

He believes that learning occurs through

stimuli and reinforcement and that language

development depends
exclusively on external
stimuli. The language is in the answers that

the child learns by conditioning.

Chomsky's innate
theory

of the human genome, which
It is based on the homogeity

explains the linguistic development of children only by

exposure to the language without any type of instruction,

that is, children are born with an innate capacity for speech,
which is why they are capable of learning and assimilating.
communicative and linguistic structures.

SOCIOCULTURAL THEORY
Vygostky

He believes that the learning and cognitive

development of individuals is based on

interaction with other

people. It is understood
that the development of the person is a

consequence of socialization.

INTERACTIONIST THEORY
Brunner
Language is learned
using communicative
forms, which is why the
interaction between
the mother and the child manages to move

from the pre-linguistic to the linguistic.