Week 9 : Reputation and Concession

1. What is my thesis?  -Parents should make their babies listen many languages since they are young

2. What is the opposite position?

   -Parents don't have to make their babies listen many languages since they are young

3. What arguments can I anticipate?, 

 a)Humans acquire language naturally, so we don't have to make efforts to learn language.

4. How will I counter those arguments?

  a)Although we have innate ability to acquire language, if we weren't exposed to language, we could not get it.

My Reputation and Concession

 My opinion might be ambiguous and irrational according to ‘Nativist Theory.’ Also, some people might say that parents don't have to make efforts to learn language, because humans acquire language naturally. However, there are many evidences that language exposure is very important to language acquisition. In USA, researchers have two months babies listen US sentence and French sentence in opposite direction. Then they calculate the time which those babies look direction where one sentence is told. As a result, babies look direction in which US sentence is told. It is because those babies are more exposed to US English, so they are skilled to it. Another evidence is a research which shows that US babies distinguish ‘r’ and ‘l’ better than Japanese babies do. The reason is same with first evidence. As you see, the exposure of language is important to acquire language. Although humans have innate ability to acquire language, but humans can’t get language if they weren’t exposed to language. The story of Genie can support it.