Identify the basic four theories of language learning and describe them.

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The Answer is 1) Skinner said that infants need to be taught language through association and reinforcement. Children associate the names of objects and events with their meaning, and caregivers provide reinforcement for utterances that are close to real language (e.g., babbling "ma-ma-ma-ma" is rewarded with smiles). Skinner assumed that children who use language better are those whose caregivers spoke to them the most.
2) Social-pragmatic learning proposes that social impulses foster infant language. Children master words and grammar to join the social world of the people around them. This theory emphasizes that language requires social give-and-take; children cannot learn language from educational programs alone.
3) Chomsky said that learning language is innate or inborn, and that adults do not need to directly teach it. Children's innate drive to imitate, combined with a predisposition to derive the patterns in spoken language (thanks to a structure he referred to as a language acquisition device (LAD)), enable children to acquire the language to which they are exposed.
4) A hybrid theory proposed by Hollich et al. suggests that there is an emergent coalition of aspects of several of the theories. This theory contends that each of the three theories accounts for certain aspects of language acquisition, but to fully understand language acquisition, all three theories must be combined.

Identify the Basic Four Theories of Language Learning and Describe