The Active Construction of a Grammar Theory & The Innateness Hypothesis in relation to FLA.

QUESTION: 

How does each of the following theories account for the process of first language acquisition?: a) The Active Construction of a Grammar Theory, b) The Innateness Hypothesis.

ANSWER:

a) The Active Construction of a Grammar Theory focuses on explaining FLA from the perspective of being, as human species, programmed to acquire and construct the linguistic features related to language. It also explains why we cannot come up with higher form structures before simpler and more basic constructions have been mastered.

b) The Innateness Hypothesis as exposed by Lenneberg claims that, as walking, developing our capacity to speak when children is innate to human beings -genetically if you wish- and as such (a naturally expected behavior)  it is expected to occur when children feel ready to do so.