COGNITIVE THEORY OF

LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
(PIAGET)
Siti Nur ‘Atirah Binti Napi
Najlaa Aqilah Binti Yahaya
Aini Nursyamimi Binti Md Daud
Nayli Imanina Binti Md Isa
Muhammad Ashraf Hakimi Bin Azmi
Muhammad Haikal Bin Arba’ai
 Schema
• Existing knowledge and idea

Example:
Birds can fly
 According to Piaget, children first create mental structures
within the mind (schemes) and from these schemes,
language development happens.

Assimilation Accommodation
Process of changing one’s
Accomodation
Process of changing one’s
environment to place schema to adapt to the
information into an already new environment.
existing schema or idea.

Integrate new information into Change old scheme to receive and

existing skill develop new information

Example:
Example:
Not only bird can fly, airplane
Not everything that flies has wings
can fly too
 Schema
Assimilation Accommodation