Question

Which theory of language acquisition combines several schools of thought to hypothesize that language development is produced through a combination of genetically predetermined predispositions and environmental circumstances that help teach language?

a) universal grammar
b) interactionist perspective
c) learning theory approach
d) language-acquisition device

Answer 1

Letter B is the correct answer.

Interactionist perspective is a theory of language acquisition that suggests that our language ability is a result of our desire to communicate with other people. Then, language will depend upon those who we want to communicate with. Thus, we can say that the environment will highly affect how well and quickly we can learn a language.