INTERNAL PROCESSINGUniversidad Latina de Costa Rica- Centro Internacional de PostgradosMaestría Ciencias de la Educación con énfasis en la Enseñanza del Inglés- Language Acquisition Course- Licda. Melissa González Castro

How do you acquire a language?

Learner’s motives, needs, attitudes and emotional states filter what they hear affecting the quality of language.

• integrative motivation• instrumental motivation• social group identification motive

It guides the acquisition process, limiting what can be learned and rejecting material which does not fit yet into the emerging system.

• Transitional constructions• Errors in speech• Order of structures

Learners consciously formulate sentences and to correct or edit their speech and writing. Factors:

• Learner’s age• Verbal task being performed• Learner’s personality

Emotional stages

Filtering determines:• Target language models the learner selects• Parts of the new language the learner attends

to first• When language efforts cease• How fast the learner acquire the language