... of their parents and carers, social and pragmatic aspects of language seem to be learnt this way. Another approach to the language acquisition is the cognitive approach this is mainly to do with the child's psychological and intellectual development. This theory is all to do with learning complex forms of language when a child's intellectual development is ready for it. As children grow they develop an awareness of concepts from their physical experiences. It is therefore futile to try and teach a child complex form of speaking before they are ready for it, this is mainly to do with the fact that they cannot grasp the ideas involved in forming a complex sentence like the grammar and the kinds of logical relationships involved, which must come first. This view is most commonly associated with the psychologist Jean Piaget. Piaget suggests that child language has two sets of functions, one is social ...

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