Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Second Language
Acquisition
- Input Hypothesis
- Stephen Krashen (1985)
- Belief that everyone
learns language the same
way
- Comprehensible input is
the understanding of
basic messages
- Example: Teaching a
lesson with visuals and
hand signals is more
effective than
immersing students in a
language completely.
- BICS v CALP
- Jim Cummins (1987)
- BICS: Basic interpersonal
communicative skills; language
typically acquired by young children,
small aspect of language for
conversational use
- The way people speak
conversationally in
social situations.
- CALP: Cognitive Academic Language
Proficiency; referring to formal academic
learning and the skills associated with it
(synthesizing, comparing, classifying, etic.
- The application of
language in an academic
setting. Having students
to eventually be able to
write an essay or
complete a project.
- Universal Grammar
- All human grammar rests on innate
building blocks. All languages have
basic verbs, nouns, adjectives, etc.,
the uses change in the different
languages
- English does not give
various verbs and nouns
gender, while languages
such as spanish and
French do.
- Noam Chomsky
- The Critical Period Hypothesis
- Eric Lennegerg (1967)
- A second language is best learned between
the ages of 2 and puberty. The ability to learn
language is negatively affected by the
completion of process of lateralization
- Example:
Teaching children
Spanish in 2nd
grade.
- The Monitor Hypothesis
- Krashen & Terrell (1983)
- They stated that acquisition is
key for language
development. Formal rules
are not emphasized very
much and monitors help ELLs
to reflect on the formal rules
of language writing.
- Example: Having an ESL teacher to review
ELL student work before turning it in to
ensure that formal writing rules are
followed and to help explain them if
needed.