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LANGUAGE ACQUISITION THEORIES   SKINNER – BEHAVIOURIST Imitation Positive and Negative Reinforcement SOCIAL – VYGOTSKY Learn through conversation LASS (Language Acquisition Support System) – parents assist children in social conversations (first time going to a doctor for example) Zone of Proximal Development – difference between what learner can do with help and without it. COGNITIVE – PIAGET Can’t learn to speak without learning the concepts of what they’re speaking about first. Object Permanence – Before 18 months children believe that objects disappear when they’re not in vision. Egocentric Speech – children speak to themselves to develop language . INNATENESS – CHOMSKY Language learning comes from an ability to acquire language that we’re born with. LAD (Language Acquisition Device) – Part of the brain (Brocha’s and Wernick’s) is responsible for acquiring la...
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24/03/2017

Work from last week The vocabulary of Manglish consists of words originating from English, Malay, Hokkien, Mandarin, Cantonese, Tamil, Malayalam and, to a lesser extent, various other European languages, while Manglish syntax resembles southern varieties of Chinese. Also, elements of American and Australian slang have come through from imported television series. The Malaysian Manglish is sometimes known as Rojak or Bahasa Rojak, but it differs from the Rojak language by the usage of English as the base language. The East Coast versions (Kelantan and Terengganu) of Manglish may differ greatly, as their accent of Malay and the jargon are particularly alien to regular Malaysian (West Coast) speakers. This distinction can be hears in the film 'Baik Punya Cilok', in which one of the characters speaks in an authentic Terengganu/Kelantan Manglish.
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