Support Interactionism In Children

actionism
Interactionism is a combination of behaviourism and innatism. It involves both sides of the nature vs nurture debate. The theory of interactionism explains that both behaviourism and innatism are responsible for children to acquire language.
Behaviourism involves children learning through imitation and developing language from outsider sources such as parents and the living environment around them. Behaviourism is seen as the nurture side.
Innatism: Explains that children only learn whatever language is spoken around them and there is a part of the brain that contains knowledge of what is and isn’t possible when acquiring language from birth and that the human mind must be predisposed to learning language.
Interactionism is supported

I believe that children need to interact with other native language speakers to be able to learn and develop important linguistic abilities but I also believe that children have an instinctive ability to solve problems and learn from birth. Many feral children studies have such as ‘Genie’ have shown that children have a critical period for learning language and many other functions. Genie was locked up in her room for 11 years from ages 2-13. When she was released from her parents care she demonstrated no understanding of language. Although nobody knows if Genies difficulties in language suggests that she was born with a deficiency or if her nurturing turned her into the person she

They may call all circular objects soccer because they all have the shape of a soccer ball in common. Children may under generalise in situations such as calling all things that you read books for instance. As a child’s awareness increases their vocabulary grows and they will start to label objects correctly and understand that words are related.
Morphology and syntax: one of the most common tests for testing grammar is called the wug test. It was created by a psycholinguist named Jean Berko Gleason. The test consisted of a made up creature that she named a ‘wug’ and she has 2 more wugs next to it. She asked the children what two wugs are called and they came up with the word WUGZ.
The rule of plurals for young children can be quite difficult. Children do not simply memorise what each plural sound is but they have created a rule by themselves of plural use which they can use on words that they have never heard before. This shows that children don’t necessarily imitate others in every