the role of input in l2 acquisition 2

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The role of input in L2

acquisitionIsobel Martnez Duce

Elosa Moya Antn


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Introduction: input

First of all, it is very helpful to describe what is Second Langua(SLA). SLA focuses on the formal features of language. Its goathe L2 acquisition, to explain it and to identify the externafactors that account for why learners acquire an L2 in the wa

In SLA, there are several factors that influence the learnerinternal and external, and so, learning can be modified. Prthe external factors is the social milieu, and, the other is the i


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What is input?

Inputs are the samples of language to which the learner is eare needed in order to acquire a second language. Wlanguage learning cannot occur. Input is the primarily linguislearner. It is a data source for acquisition

Depending on the type of inputs, the learning will be difimportant to say, what kind of inputs are better for learning?


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TYPES OF INPUTS

Comprehensible input, the language that the learner can reafor its meaning

Modifying input, the one which is adjusted to the learner in student understand the meaning of the utterance

Care- taker speech L1: language that adults used to talk to children,simple syntax, lots of repetitions and paraphrasing (usually fobehaviour)

Foreigner talk L2: Language used by NS when communicating with

information exchange) Input enhancement, entails any effort to make formal features o

salient to learners.

Positive IE: involves manipulating input in certain ways to make fobvious to learners: e.g.: louder voice or stress,etc. (could be also For

Negative IE: is basically feedback ( in the form, of re-castings, error other way of making the learner know he/ she is making a mistake)


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THE ROLE OF INPUT

1. Input hypothesis: Krashen, language is acquirecomprehensible input

2. Interaction Hypothesis: also considers comprehensible inpmore emphasis on the interaction and the negotiation of me


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Introduction: the input hypothes

Before we explain what is about the input hypothesis, it is bwhat says the natural order hypothesis. The natural order hthat we acquire the rules of language in a predictable ordcome earlier than others. Knowing this, the input hypothrelated to the natural order hypothesis in that:


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INPUT HYPOTHESIS

It claims that we move along the development continuucomprehensible input. Comprehensible input is defined as secompetence, in terms of its syntactic complexity. If thecompetence is I then comprehensible input is i+1, the ndevelopmental sequence. Input which is either too simple (aor too complex (i+2/3/4) will not be useful for acquisition.

(Kra

Input is the only necessary condition for language learning.

the more input is queried, recycled and paraphraseconditions are offered to increase its comprehensibility, potential usefulness as input. The exposure to comprehenecessary and sufficient for Second Language Learning take


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How do learners get linguistic data from the input wattempting to comprehend the language?

Something must be filtering this data, this is the focus of inresearch


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PRINCIPLES WITHIN THE INPUT HYPOTH

First noun principle: is the tendency learners have to process pronoun in the sentence as its subject. ( fine for lang, SVO, but no

lexical preference principle: learners will process lexical formbefore grammatical forms when both encode the same semant

e.g.: We travelled to London yestarday. Learners parse seattention to content words and somehow ignoring grammaThey will take as a time indicator yesterday and to the _ed Past

Sentence location principle: learners tend to process elemeinitial position,and sometimes final position, before than those in


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WEAKNESSES OR FLAW AREAS

it doesnt provide a clear insight of the parsing of procedures to link form to meaning.

It does not explain how intake, (language kept in the wobecomes finally integrated into the developing interlanguag

The name most widely associated with input processing is Bill


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From input to intake

Differences betweeninput and intake

Input is the first linguistic data

Intakeis known as the linguistic data processed from the input athe working memory but not yet acquired

Difference between acquisitionand learning

Acquisition refers to the subconscious process identical in al

ways to the process children utilize in acquiring their first lang(Krashen, 1985)

Learning refers to the conscious process that results in knowilanguage (Krashen, 1985, p. 45)


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From in

There are several factors that intervene in the acquisition language. It is useful to make clear the difference among inputo which learners are exposed; intake, the incorporation of tmemory of the learner; and output, the automatic use of the inp

A process which mediates between target language learnersinternalized set of rules

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INTAKE


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THE ROLE OF INPUT WITHIN THE INTERAHYPOTHESIS

In the 80s Long in a attempt to justified the importance of ishould not be fed into the learners' supposed linguistic internrather negotiated, and it is through this negotiation of menature of meaning will be qualitatively changed.

themore input was queried, recycled and paraphrased, comprehensibility, the greater its potential usefulness as inpshould become increasingly well-targeted to the particular dneeds of the learner(Long 1981, 1983, 1996)


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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ellis, R. (2008). The Study of Second Language Acquisition(2nOxford University Press

Rosamond, M. & Florence, M (2004). Second Language Learn(2nd ed.). Hodder Arnold

Arellano S.J. , Fernando (1997). Historia de la lingstica, Tomolingstica del siglo XX, Caracas: Universidad Catlica Andrs


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