The Interactionist Approach to Language Acquisition (Intro Psych Tutorial #86)
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- Опубликовано: 13 мар 2017
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In this video I describe the interactionist approach to language acquisition. This approach recognizes our genetic predisposition for language and considers how the social environment plays a role in that development. Children are learning more than just vocabulary and syntactical rules and their ability to interact and communicate using language is supported by the adults and other children around them, which Jerome Bruner referred to as the Language Acquisition Support System (LASS). I also explain how the social environment played a fundamental role in the emergence of a new sign language in Nicaragua in the 1980s.
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@@leilaniahkoi I don't have any videos specifically on Social Neuroscience but one way you might consider exploring the topic would be to consider ideas you find interesting from social psychology and look for research connecting these to brain activity. There's research on a number of these areas though I haven't discussed this in detail in my videos.
You could also look into research on social hierarchies and hormones and brain activity which I mention in this video: ruclips.net/video/acIBafRwTmE/видео.html
or neural circuits in social behavior like play in animals described by Jaak Panksepp in his talk here: ruclips.net/video/65e2qScV_K8/видео.html
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I was wondering about the possible reasons for this sudden drop, after age 7, in one's ability to learn a new language to native fluency, and particularly to acquire the native accent.
I wondered whether it might be a residual thing from evolution, in that back when the world was a very dangerous place and people lived in tribes, if a young kid somehow became separated from his or her tribe, and was picked up by another tribe, then the new tribe could more easily integrate the kid if they still had the ability to exactly imitate their new family.
Perhaps after the age of 7 it's more difficult to turn a kid away from the ways of their previous tribe, and to break the loyalty they'd built up for that tribe. So effectively, after the age of 7, a person's behaviour and thinking becomes more crystallised.
Crystallization at a certain age would serve as an evolutionary advantage, in that it bonds them forever to their native tribe, and at the same time makes it almost impossible to turn them towards a rival tribe with different behaviours/beliefs etc.
If they're under this age, then all is not lost, because they're still malleable enough to seemlessly integrate into a _new_ tribe, by way of acquiring, completely, the native accent and perfect grammar, as well as a new set of beliefs.
If we kept this malleabilty well into adolescence/adulthood, when the person is physically more capable of causing harm to another tribe member, or even to act with treacherous intentions, then obviously this wouldn't be good for overall survival in tribes.
I'm probably talking absolute nonsense, but I feel like there must be an evolutionary reason to explain this phenomenom.
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Great explanation.. thank you
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This was very helpful, thank you! Do you have a video on the information processing theories of language development under interactionist approach?
Hi, I don't have a detailed video specifically on information processing theories as they aren't covered in detail in most intro psych classes but I described some ideas related to rule processing in this video on language development, hope this helps! ruclips.net/video/DMeIv1hSk_k/видео.html
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can you tell me that how interactionism is different from other language acquisition theories?
You can think of interactionism as falling between the extremes of a purely nativist theory (which would be that language acquisition is solely the result of genetic predisposition) and a behaviorist theory (that language acquisition is solely the result of reinforcement & punishment). Interactionism recognizes that genetic predisposition and the social learning environment both play roles in the acquisition of language. Between those extremes, however, there is plenty of space for disagreement and interactionists may differ in which factors they consider to be important or how they believe this interaction is occurring. I hope this helps!
can you tell me about use interactionist approach devise activities?
Sorry, I'm not quite sure what you're asking. Do you mean activities for language learning?
Thank you, may you explain what's bilingualism?
Sure, should have clarified in the video. Bilingualism refers to speaking 2 languages, and studies of bilingualism often look at children raised speaking multiple languages, often because one language is spoken at home and another at school or two languages are both spoken at home.
Could you direct me to any studies on the children from Nicaragua
Sure, you can find the original paper on this by Senghas, Kita, & Ozyurek (2004) here: wexler.free.fr/library/files/senghas%20(2004)%20children%20creating%20core%20properties%20of%20language.%20evidence%20from%20an%20emerging%20sign%20language%20in%20nicaragua.pdf
thank you! can you explain the limitations of the theory?
Sure, one limitation of this theory is that it's quite difficult to determine the exact roles that many aspects of the social environment might be playing in language development. When adults speak differently to children they change vocabulary, tone of voice, sentence structure, speed, etc, and so it's difficult to know which factors are most relevant. This interaction also varies based on the child and over time, so the child's feedback is also changing the adult's language use in a reciprocal way. This supports the need for an interactionist approach but the complexity reveals that the process of how this occurs is still not fully understood.
Another limitation is that the social environment can vary fairly widely across cultures in terms of how adults interact with children. Like most psychological theories, this relies mostly on data from educated middle-class Americans. This may not accurately represent the social learning environment of most children, and yet children in other environments still nearly all develop full fluency in their native languages.
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n the limitations of Social Interactionist Theory
Or even a textbook, does not need to be an original paper
@@harriethooper6475 Sure, you can see the section on Baby Talk and register in this paper by Schieffelin and Ochs which points out how use of baby talk can vary in different cultures: www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/faculty/ochs/articles/Schieffelin_Ochs_1986_Language_Socialization.pdf
Hi. So after watching this video, can I tell that genetic predisposition is same as Language Acquisition Device (LAD), is it true?
The Language Acquisition Device refers more specifically to something about human brains that figures out language rules and this is what gives us a genetic predisposition for acquiring language.
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@@amallea8492 No problem!
Very time-consuming to find the title number in the playlist, which should be written first.
@@shirakumo_tubame If you find the complete playlist with all intro videos on the channel page, all the videos are in order and so the position in the playlist (at the top of the playlist box) matches the video title number. Hope this helps!
very informative...but I don't agree with the age of 7 being the cutoff age for learning full fluency of a language. absolutely not!