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Beginning with Elene Lieven’s review of the importance of the environment for language learning, discuss the importance of the social and cultural context where child language acquisition is concerned.
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Essay 4 Beginning with Elene Lieven's review of the importance of the environment for language learning, discuss the importance of the social and cultural context where child language acquisition is concerned. Environment According to Elena Lieven, the roles played by brothers and sisters, and other children and the extent to which adults explicitly teach appropriate language to their children are important in language learning. By 'environment', she means the characteristics of the interpersonal surroundings within which young, language-learning children spend their time whether dyadic ( mainly alone with the mother)or polyadic ( with other adults,with siblings,with a group of children). ( Mercer & Swann, p 36) Theories of environmental influences on language learning have tended to be built upon the study of the mother-infant dyad where in actual fact most children in the world grow up in polyadic situations where they spend a lot of time in one of the following situations: with the mother...
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