Which is the correct theory?
- Language forms are learned as a result of practical usage, such as occur in social interactions such as requesting, stating, or locating things, etc.
- Forms that are used more frequently and consistently develop first in a child‰s language. So what does it all mean?
- What it all boils down to is that there is validity to all these theories. They all provide bits and pieces to the complicated puzzle of language. They all provide hints as to what variables could be manipulated to facilitate language development, and when and how they should be manipulated.
Hence we shall examine the processes that form this communication bridge, and consider each process in the light of what we know of the theories of language development.
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