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This paper aims at critiquing Katie’s language in the famous film,Mockingbird Don’t Sing,which is a 2001 American independent film based on the true story of Genie,a modern-day feral child,discovered in California in 1970.The analyses of Katie’s language are based on Katie’s language by the stimulation of some people around her after she escaped from her home according to the theories of the interactionist position,Behaviorism,the affective filter hypothesis,Innatism,the stages of language development and the critical period hypothesis.Katie’s abnormal language bitterly proves the importance of critical period for language acquisition and language learning.
This paper aims at critiquing Katie's language in the famous film, Mockingbird Do not Sing, which is a 2001 American independent film based on the true story of Genie, a modern-day feral child, discovered in California in 1970. The analyzes of Katie's language are based on Katie's language by the stimulation of some people around her after she escaped from her home according to the theories of the interactionist position, Behaviorism, the affective filter hypothesis, Innatism, the stages of language development and the critical period hypothesis. Katie's abnormal language bitterly proves the importance of critical period for language acquisition and language learning.