EL100 LESSON 2

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    • The Mama Theory
      easiest syllables and symbolic objects
    • The Ta-ta Theory

      gestures and imitation of body movements
    • The Bow-Wow Theory

      imitation of natural sounds
    • The Pooh-Pooh Theory

      strong and emotive cries
    • The Ding-Dong Theory

      sounds and meanings
    • The Yo-Ye-Ho Theory

      grunts of heavy works
    • The Sing-Song Theory

      musical sounds
    • The Hey-You Theory

      interpersonal contact
    • The Hocus-Focus Theory

      religious aspects, ancestors
    • The Eureka Theory

      ancestors, arbitrary sounds
    • The Divine Source Theory

      God, adam
    • The Tower of Babel Theory

      God, varieties of language
    • Charles Fries
      speech
    • Roger Bell
      code
    • Noam Chomsky
      meanings
    • Searle and Austin
      When we're using language we're not just saying something
    • Oller
      Language has two elements
    • Mallinowski
      Meaning does not reside in the words
    • Widdowson
      The sender and receiver
    • Michael Halliday
      enumerates the function of language
    • Instrumental
      use language to cause things
    • Regulatory
      use language to control
    • Interactional
      use languange to create relationship with others
    • Personal
      express our ideas
    • Heuristic
      explore the environment
    • Imaginative
      creativity/writing
    • Representational
      convey facts & information
    • Chomsky's Linguistic Theory

      there is LAD on a child's brain + human biology
    • Languange Acquisition Device
      What does LAD mean
    • Skinner's Behaviorism Theory

      environmental/hearing
    • Krashen's Monitor Model

      don't need grammatical
    • Comprehensible Input
      doesn't required grammar but allows interaction
    • The distinction between Acquisition
      most fundamental
    • The Monitor Hypothesis 

      relationship between acquisition and learning
    • The Input hypothesis

      target languange
    • The Affective Filter hypothesis

      high motivation and selfconfidence
    • The Natural Order hypothesis

      grammatical structures + natural order
    • Linguistic Competence

      speaker’s tacit and implicit knowledge of his/her language.
    • Knowledge of the sound system.
      sounds that signify meanings
    • Knowledge of words
      certain concepts or meanings
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