l2 language acquisition

SOME ASPECTS ABOUT SECOND LANGUAGE

ACQUISTION

UNIVERSIDAD PEDAGÓGICA EXPERIMENTAL LIBERTADORINSTITUTO PEDAGÓGICO DE CARACAS

DEPARTAMENTO DE IDIOMAS MODERNOSPROGRAMA DE INGLÉS

CÁTEDRA DE LINGÜÍSTICA

Teacher: Mirna Quintero Student: Francisco de Barnola

DEVELOPMENTAL PATTERNS

SOME ASPECTS ABOUT SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISTION

Development, which essentially means change is the result of the complex interactions between many processes or stages ( Encyclopedia Britannica, 2010)

Stage I: Pre-production

Silent PeriodUp to 500 words Parroting Able to respond to pictures and other visualsDuplicates gestures and movements to show comprehension



Stage II: Early Production

Up to 1000 words Can speak in on or two more phrasesCan use short language chunks Teachers should:

• Provide listening activities• build vocabulary using pictures• Use pictures and realia to support

questions



Stage III: Speech emergence

Up to 3000 words Can speak with simple phrases and sentences Ask simple questions : “May I go to bathroom? Understand easy stories Do content work with teacher support



Stage IV: Intermediate Fluency

Up to 6000 words Can speak with complex sentences Willing to express opinions and share their thoughts Understand complex concepts Comprehension of English Literature


DEVELOPMENTAL PATTERNS Stage V: Advanced Fluency

Student at this stage will be near-native in their ability to perform in content area learning


L2 ORDER OF ACQUISITION

The order of acquisition is a concept in language acquisition that all learners of a given language will learn the grammatical features of that language in roughly the same order. (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2010)

Common L2 order of difficulty for grammatical morphemes (Dulay and Burt, 1973 cited by Cook , 1993)1 plural “-s” “Books”2 progressive “-ing” “John going”3 copula “be” “John is here”4 auxiliary “be” “John is going”5 articles “the/a” “The books”6 irregular past tense “John went”7 third person “-s” “John likes books”8 possessive “’s” “John’s book”


L2 SEQUENCE OF ACQUISITION

Particular grammatical features in a language have a fixed sequence of development, but the overall order of acquisition is less rigid. (Cook, 1993)


Contrastive Analysis

The patterns that caused difficulty could be predicted and described. (Lado, in Brown 2007)


Contrastive Analysis


Language Transfer : Intralingua / Interlingua

Interlingual transfer from the native language (L1) to the L2

Interferenceby sheep

Intralingual transfer (within the target language itself)

Overgeneralization

e.g. “He goed”; “The window broke”


Language Transfer : Intralingua / Interlingua

Brown, H (2007) Principles of Language Learning and teaching, Fifth Edition. San Francisco State University: Longman

REFERENCES

Haynes, J (2010) . San Francisco State University: Stages of Second Language Acquisition. [Document Online] Available : http://www.everythingesl.net/inservices/language_stages.php [Consulted : May, 20, 2012]

Cook, V . L2 sequences of acquisition. [Document Online] Available : http://homepage.ntlworld.com/vivian.c/SLA/L2sequences.htm [Consulted : May, 20, 2012]

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