Abstract

The language specialists have discerned that language is a species-specific and a biologically determined scheme for the human beings After a child is born it goes under pre-linguistic and linguistic stages of language acquisition Although there are many different approaches to learning three basic kinds of learning theory are prominent like Behaviourism Innatism and Cognitivism All these theories centered around nature and nurture theories or on empiricism and nativism concepts According to empirical research usually knowledge comes through experience from the environment Nativism holds that at least some knowledge is not acquired from the environment but is genetically transmitted and innate The theoreticians never agree or disagree with any of these theories whether environmentalist or nativist The principle focus of this study is to investigate the dominance among three main doctrines by delving into the fundamental differences among them The specification of these theories is also given prominence in this article Finally in the findings session it has been tried to trace the dominance of one particular theory among others