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tiffannnnyyyyyy · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

According to the social cognitive theory of language acquisition, children learn language primarily through:

a. the demonstration of language behaviors that are reinforced by the environment.
b. imitation of language displayed by others, together with corrective feedback.
c. instinctive tendencies that predispose children to learn speech.
d. instinctive tendencies to learn speech together with adult modeling and feedback.

Question 2

Virtually all people learn to speak, and despite wide diversity, all languages have similar forms, such as subject-verb structure. The theory of language acquisition best able to explain these similarities is:

a. behaviorist theory.
b. social learning theory.
c. nativist theory.
d. constructivist theory .