... and nothing can change this, or, pre determinists who do not deny the importance of environmental stimuli, but they say language acquisition cannot be accounted for on the basis of environmental factors only. Noam Chomsky is perhaps the best known and the most influential linguist of the second half of the Twentieth Century. He has made a number of strong claims about language: in particular, he suggests that language is an innate faculty. Interactionists, especially those with social interactionist view argue that human development is due to how an individual interacts within their social environment. The theorists in this model were concerned with the interplay between the environment and biological factors. Interactionists tend to view that children do have a biological predisposition to acquire a language. Piaget (1972 as cited in Becker and Varelas 2001) stressed the importance of individual cognitive development as a relatively solitary act. Social interaction ...

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