1. You will be able to:
Explain the beginning of the process of language development.
Explain in simple terms Chomsky’s theory of language acquisition

2. r
The Ear

3. Noam Chomsky
Language Acquisition

4. Human beings are pre-disposed to
learning language.
He called this the Language Acquisition
Device (LAD)
Babies’ brains are programmed and
ready for communication.
Children learn words when they begin to talk and how to put them together in the right order.

5. DISCUSS! Children are able to learn complex
grammar in their own language and do
not need to sit down to be taught it-
rather they listen to all the sounds and
sentence structures they hear all the
time.
DISCUSS!