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Hearing English and trying to speak it yourself are the only tools you have at your disposal when you are learning your native language.
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Michael Mateer English Language Summer Essay Title: Hearing English and trying to speak it yourself are the only tools you have at your disposal when you are learning your native language. Most of the child language acquisition theories all have the same general idea, that language is acquired through repetition and imitation. The behaviourist approach states 'that children learn to speak by imitating the language structures they hear'. Covering both aspects of the statement at the beginning which is 'hearing English and trying to speak it yourself are the only tools'. The interactive approach states 'recent studies have shown the importance of interaction' which again is the tools of listening and speaking in order to acquire the language. All of these approaches support the statement at hand. However some approaches disagree with it all together. The cognitive approach believes 'language acquisition is directly linked to intellectual development' in other words that as the child matures...
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