First and Second Language Acquisition and Learning

Maria del Pilar Montillo Ortiz Cartago, Valle del Cauca May 17, 2020 The Definition of “Language Acquisition Device” and its Relation with First Language Learning. Language acquisition device is a “tool” with which humans are born and is located in the brain, it is used to help children to learn and understand language quickly. Children can acquire language and innately understand grammar. Noam Chomsky developed the language acquisition device in the 1950s, and he proposed that every child has the fundamental rules for language and he states that they simply need to acquire the vocabulary (Chomsky's Language Acquisition Device: Definition & Explanation, 2015). With this capability, children can learn their first language depending on the environment that they develop; if a child is in an environment in which only Spanish is spoken, the child will acquire only Spanish. However, children who grow up in an environment in which both Spanish and English are s