English Language A-Level
Theoretical accounts of acquisition
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Frameworks covering behaviourist, nativist/innatist, cognitive and social interactionist explanations of how children acquire spoken language.
Topics that use Theoretical accounts of acquisition
- Children’s language development (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Caregiver and peer interaction
- Conventions and audience awareness
- Development of communicative competence
- Functions and purposes of child language
- Genre as purpose-driven text type
- Mode
- Pragmatics and speech acts
- Research evidence and studies
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