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Discuss, with Illustrations from your own Observations and Study of Children Acquiring Language, what you Consider to be the Relative Importance of Social Environment and the Child's Innate Faculties in its Acquisition of Language.  

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Discuss, with Illustrations from your own Observations and Study of Children Acquiring Language, what you Consider to be the Relative Importance of Social Environment and the Child's Innate Faculties in its Acquisition of Language During the first four to five years of life, a human will learn how to articulate most of the sounds of English speech and acquire the ability to produce correctly structured sentences, take part in spoken dialogue and use language in order to learn, express emotions and to make personal contact. However, is the human's ability to do this due to nature - innate language learning faculties that every human automatically possesses, or nurture - the belief that humans only develop language as a form of communication as a result of being exposed to language and being encouraged to use it from an early stage? The nature versus nurture debate is a conundrum which has interested humans...

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