Second Language Acquisition Theory

Second Language Acquisition Theory

1. Krashen, 2009

2. The acquisition-learning distinction

   • Two distinct and independent ways of developing competence
     • Language acquisition: subconscious process
       • "Picking up"
       • We are not consciously aware of the rules of the languages
     • Language Learning
       • Conscious knowledge
         • Knowing the rules
         • being aware of them
         • being able to talk about them
     • Children acquire
       • Child language acquisition
         • Error correction does not influence acquisition to any great extent
     • Adults can only learn

3. The acquisition-learning distinction (may not be unique)

   • We learn small parts of our first language in school

4. The Natural Order Hypothesis

   • Finding that the acquisition of grammaticar structures proceeds in a predictable order
     • Natural order appears only under certain conditions
     • Is not the same as the order of acquisition of first language than second

5. The monitor hypothesis

   • Acquisition and learning
     • Are used in very specific ways
       • Acquisition "initiates" our utterances and is responsible for our fluency
       • Learning like a only function: Monitor or editor
         • Only to make changes in the form of our utterance

6. The input hypothesis

   • We acquire by going for meaning
     • We acquire structure
   • Speaking fluency cannot be taught directly
   • Finding that caretaker speech
     • Get more complex as progresses

7. The affective filter hypothesis

   • How affective factors relate to the second language acquisitiion process
     • Dulay and Burt, 1977
     • Theorical work done in the area of affective variables

8. Monroy Ventura Alexia Fernanda