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Tahriri, Abdorreza – Online Submission, 2012
Acquisition in general and first language acquisition in particular is a very complex and a multifaceted phenomenon. The way that children acquire a language in a very limited period is astonishing. Various approaches have been proposed so far to account for this extraordinary phenomenon. These approaches are indeed based on various philosophical…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Child Development, Epistemology, Linguistic Theory
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Cherkes-Julkowski, Miriam – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 1996
The case is made that advances in chaos and complexity theories and self-organizing systems have important implications for the field of learning disabilities. Problems with behaviorism are discussed and the properties of self-organizing systems are explained. The concepts of continuous, nonlinear development and motivation and volition are…
Descriptors: Behaviorism, Chaos Theory, Child Development, Cognitive Processes