consciousness

Consciousness, noticing and restructoring.

Consciousness

Being mindful of how language works in different situations, text and speech.

Means

Problematic of SLA because of

Implicit knowledge

Explicit knowledge

Knowledge of rules and items that exist in analysed form so that learners are able to report what they know.

Knowledge that is intuitive and tacit. It cannot be directly reported.

Types of consciousness

Awareness

Intention

Knowledge

Knowing something that is there and pay more or less attention to it.

Volitional aspect and provoque confusing on something.

Related to implicit and explict knowledge.

(see above)

Noticing

Deriving from

PPP Model

Highlighting the form

Two types

Conscious awareness

Noticing the gap

Learners become aware of differences between their own linguistic output and what is present in input.

Some conditions for noticing

* The item should be significant for the learner.

* It should be salient.

*It should be frequent.

*It should require attention to processing of form, etc.

Reformulation

This

Approximates as closely as possible to a putative target language model.

Restructuring

Means

Process by which learners reorganize their interlanguage in the light of new evidence about the target language.

Salient features on the input.