Second Language Acquisition

Second Language Acquisition

1. Evolve the knowledge by children and adults

2. The process of learning that language

3. Important differents between adult and child

4. Acquisition: it’s through a subconscious process and instinctive process

5. DST: Change in Behaviors and developments of all your surroundings social.

6. Kraschen´s Hypothesis

   • Incidental Learning:Most of this acquisition happens through experience rather than formal education.
   • Intencional Learning : When someone is pay attention about your process and mistakes.
   • Natural Order Hypothesis: -Grammar Structures are acquired in a predictable order.
   • Monitor Hypothesis: Explain the ralationship between acquisition and learning.
     • In this Hypoteisis we can find individual variation in Monitor
       • Over-monitor users: Students who do not master the language and need monitoring constantly.
       • Monitor under users: Students have no care about their mistakes, Even though they are the most talkative people
       • Optimal monitor users:they ask for help to the monits only when it is necessary, they are more autonomous than the others.
   • Input Hypothesis: Focus not on structure deliberately (i+1) is provided naturally when input is understood.
   • Affective Filter Hypothesis: This hypothesis deals with how motivation, trust and positivism affect the time of generating input.
     • When the learner is have a high anxiety, low motivation low self-confidence, the filter turns on and causes the learner to block out input.

7. Dichotomies

   • Intake
     • Here is really important be careful with the acquisition of a new knowledge and how the student can be effort for to obtain it.
   • Input
     • All our environment is important to the moment to learn something.
   • Foreign Language
     • Here we can identify how a one person can learn a different language to his or her native language in own country.
   • 2 Language
     • when you are in the native country and you learn the native language. e.g British woman lives in Chile and she decides learn Spanish.
   • Partial Bilingual
     • Someone has a "totally" knowledge of his or her native language , but has a previous knowledge of other language.
   • Real Bilingual
     • In this case someone grown up inside two language,for that reason that person has a "full command".
   • Second Language
     • The 2L will be become ( depends its use),in 1L, and we can see sometimes when we forget some words of our native language and only we can remember it in othe language.