acquisition of language in children First language acquisition theories are expected to answer such questions as:  1- children learn language rapidly in only a few years,.
{"Image DocumentName": "Language Acquisition Theories", "Image ImageDescription": "How do Language Acquisition Theories explain children language development? Three basic theories of first language acquisition have been put forward over the years : Behaviorist, Innatist, and Interaction. Behaviorist Theory. For language acquisition, behaviorists hypothesized that children learned their first language through stimulus, response, and reinforcement as well, postulating imitation and association as essential processes. For example, to learn the word ball, the child would first associate the word ball with the familiar spherical object, the stimulus.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}