Chomsky Or Skinner?

Aisyah Aiifa Darrelene Nes Nicole

 Chomskys theory,
which is believed people have a basic pattern of LEARNING LANGUAGE inside of their brain SINCE THEY WERE BORN B. F. Skinners theory which is believed PEOPLE HAVE TO BE TAUGHT how to speak by someone for language acquisition

We mostly agree with Chomsky theory and partly Skinner theory

 People speak their language without studying. It means people already have an ability of language pattern in their brain

People usually dont remember how they learned to speak, but everybody speaks their first language without any problems. Some Children even speak more than two languages naturally

 Eg: A two years old kid can already speak.

Of course, that kid has never studied.

So, people must have some kind of language ability innately.

 Chomsky says human brain contains a language acquisition device (LAD) which automatically analyzes the components of speech a child hears. The human brain has special function, unlikely other animals. Thats why only humans speak languages. Learning language for a human is very easy because the human brain already contains ability of language, so even children start to speak language naturally in their early age.

 People in young age are very easy to acquire more than two languages at same time. Even if those languages are very different, and their parents dont speak those languages. It also proves PEOPLE MUST HAVE AN ABILITY TO FUNCTION IN ANY LANGUAGE INNATELY.

GENIE

 language got deprived during her critical period of learning first language, and she couldnt acquire her language skill normally even though she studied

This fact supports B. F. Skinners theory

 Even young children speak language without learning, but they often make mistakes in their speech. While they are growing, their number of mistakes in their speech decreases. They are learning how to speak, so in this case some part of Skinners theory is also correct.

 learning second language for people in older age supports Skinners theory. People have to keep learning language to improve their second language. It hardly ever gets perfect because people have to learn all rules and structures from beginning which dont apply to their first language

If we have learning language system innately, why cant we easily adjust to speak another language? We cant apply Chomskys theory at all in this case.

 In conclusion, until people reach critical period of learning language, people learn their language automatically without being taught because of their innate ability of language

 the ability of language has to be activated in the first place by something. Otherwise, people never begin to acquire their language. Once people past the critical period, it is hard to learn any language. Thereby, people in older age usually have problem learning second language

 Both Chomskys and Skinners theories are correct in different cases and language acquisition system works with both of them together.